Clarify use of components with cmake (resolves conan-io/conan#7476)

If a consumer package is using cmake build system, then cmake_find_package and cmake_find_package_multi are the only supported generators to take advantage of dependencies' components.
0x4d0x4b · Aug 4, 2020 · 07e6220 · 07e6220
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diff --git a/reference/conanfile/attributes.rst b/reference/conanfile/attributes.rst
@@ -944,6 +944,9 @@ This object should be filled in ``package_info()`` method.
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 | self.cpp_info.components             | | **[Experimental]** Dictionary with different components a package may have: libraries, executables... |
 |                                      | | **Warning**: Using components with other ``cpp_info`` non-default values or configs is not supported  |
+|                                      | | **Note**: If a consumer package is using cmake build system, then ``cmake_find_package`` and          |
+|                                      | | ``cmake_find_package_multi`` are the only supported generators to take advantage of dependencies'     |
+|                                      | | components                                                                                            |
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 The paths of the directories in the directory variables indicated above are relative to the