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authorArfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>2009-08-20 22:34:25 +0000
committerArfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>2009-08-20 22:34:25 +0000
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Fix portage.5 man page to document the fact that some files in profiles directory can be directories.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=14104
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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
index 37bf93148..6cc46706a 100644
--- a/man/portage.5
+++ b/man/portage.5
@@ -143,6 +143,18 @@ settings, use \fB/etc/portage/profile/\fR (it supports all of the same file
types that \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR does, except parent). Do NOT edit the
settings in \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR because they WILL be lost with the next
`emerge \-\-sync`.
+
+Any file in this directory, directories of other profiles or top-level
+"profiles" directory that begins with "package." or "use." can be more than
+just a flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory
+will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together
+as if it were a single file.
+
+.I Example:
+.nf
+/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask/removals
+/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask/testing
+.fi
.RS
.TP
.BR deprecated