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diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1 index 5ba88f3bc..4eaf073e2 100644 --- a/man/emerge.1 +++ b/man/emerge.1 @@ -1056,13 +1056,16 @@ Tells emerge to use binary packages (from $PKGDIR) if they are available, thus possibly avoiding some time\-consuming compiles. This option is useful for CD installs; you can export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/packages and then use this option to have emerge "pull" binary packages from the CD in order to satisfy -dependencies. +dependencies. Note this option implies \fB\-\-with\-bdeps=n\fR. To include +build time dependencies, \fB\-\-with\-bdeps=y\fR must be specified explicitly. .TP .BR "\-\-usepkgonly [ y | n ]" ", " \-K Tells emerge to only use binary packages (from $PKGDIR). All the binary packages must be available at the time of dependency calculation or emerge will simply abort. Portage does not use ebuild repositories when calculating -dependency information so all masking information is ignored. +dependency information so all masking information is ignored. Like \fB\-k\fR +above, this option implies \fB\-\-with\-bdeps=n\fR. To include build time +dependencies, \fB\-\-with\-bdeps=y\fR must be specified explicitly. .TP .BR "\-\-usepkg\-exclude\-live [ y | n ]" Tells emerge to not install from binary packages for live ebuilds. |