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authorDennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net>2012-09-25 15:58:23 +0200
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2012-09-25 09:49:10 -0700
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Document default behaviour without --root-deps for EAPI 5- in ebuild(5)
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index 3c2200c6f..2652f89c1 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ For EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR),
list the \fItarget\fR dependencies, i.e. those to be installed into \fBROOT\fR.
For EAPIs that do not support \fBHDEPEND\fR, the \fBemerge\fR(1) flag
\fI\-\-root-deps\fR controls what the package manager installs there.
+Without it, \fBemerge\fR defaults to install only runtime dependencies (i.e.
+\fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBPDEPEND\fR) into \fBROOT\fR.
.PP
See section \fBVARIABLES\fR for more information about the \fBDEPEND\fR,
\fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBHDEPEND\fR variables.