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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-11-26 00:01:35 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2008-11-26 00:01:35 +0000
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Note that file names in /etc/portage/package.* directories are sorted ascending
alphabetical order before being summed together. (trunk r12090) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12091
-rw-r--r--man/portage.55
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
index fe8441176..808f1cd6f 100644
--- a/man/portage.5
+++ b/man/portage.5
@@ -370,13 +370,14 @@ virtual/aspell\-dict app\-dicts/aspell\-en
.BR /etc/portage/
Any file in this directory that begins with "package." can be more than just a
flat file. If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory will be
-summed together as if it were a single file.
+sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together as if
+it were a single file.
.I Example:
.nf
-/etc/portage/package.keywords/kde
/etc/portage/package.keywords/common
/etc/portage/package.keywords/e17
+/etc/portage/package.keywords/kde
.fi
.RS
.TP