Note that --noreplace takes precedence over options such as --newuse.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=13180

diff --git a/pym/_emerge/help.py b/pym/_emerge/help.py
index f662584d74d46524f18545cf6275464a9dd75cb4..2c5f04bbfab45879fea163a10e12a433abe5e5e9 100644 (file)
--- a/pym/_emerge/help.py
+++ b/pym/_emerge/help.py
@@ -370,6 +370,12 @@ def help(myaction,myopts,havecolor=1):
                print "              ebuilds, or deps you specify on the command-line *will* cause"
                print "              Portage to remerge the package, even if it is already installed."
                print "              Note that Portage won't remerge dependencies by default."
+               desc = "Also note that this option takes " + \
+                       "precedence over options such as --newuse, preventing a package " + \
+                       "from being reinstalled even though the corresponding USE flag settings " + \
+                       "may have changed."
+               for line in wrap(desc, desc_width):
+                       print desc_indent + line
                print 
                print "       "+green("--nospinner")
                print "              Disables the spinner regardless of terminal type."