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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2006-12-04 01:37:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2006-12-04 01:37:26 +0000 |
| commit | 7916c9be3bdd7a226ddba5e403cc148eab9d513b (patch) | |
| tree | 67447b53dd8ff704af749ae64da4048ecae96957 | |
| parent | d1e0408bfc7dc8dac2e61947720b0e24d70fb4e3 (diff) | |
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Update the RESTRICT=binchecks docs. Thanks to jakub for the suggestion and antarus for the patch.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=5168
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 0c8031151..d0b0d0993 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -320,8 +320,11 @@ This should be a space delimited list of portage features to restrict. .RS .TP .I binchecks -Disable all QA checks for binaries (do not use without very good reason). See -the \fBQA CONTROL VARIABLES\fR section for more specific exemptions. +Disable all QA checks for binaries. This should ONLY be used in packages +for which binary checks make no sense (linux-headers and kernel-sources, for +example, can safely be skipped since they have no binaries). If the binary +checks need to be skipped for other reasons (such as proprietary binaries), +see the \fBQA CONTROL VARIABLES\fR section for more specific exemptions. .TP .I confcache Prevent econf from using confcache. |