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Clarify behavior of package() #1304

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7 changes: 4 additions & 3 deletions reference/commands/creator/export-pkg.rst
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Expand Up @@ -76,9 +76,10 @@ different sources for the files:

* If the argument ``--package-folder`` is provided, Conan will just copy all the
contents of that folder to the package one in the cache.
* If no ``--package-folder`` is given, Conan will execute the method ``package()``
of the recipe twice: first using the ``source_folder`` and then ``build_folder``
as the working directory.
* If no ``--package-folder`` is given, Conan will execute the method ``package()`` once
and the ``self.copy(...)`` functions will copy matching files from the ``source_folder``
**and** ``build_folder`` to the corresponding path in the Conan cache (working directory
corresponds to the ``build_folder``).


There are different scenarios where this command could look like useful:
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