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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2012-09-24 14:01:11 -0700
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2012-09-24 14:01:11 -0700
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Re-word HDEPEND docs wrt "EAPI 5 and earlier"
Referring to ranges like this is ambigous when when don't know what EAPI 6 will bring, and we have both EAPI 5-progress and 5-hdepend which add different feature sets to EAPI 5.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r--man/ebuild.514
-rw-r--r--man/emerge.19
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index ad73034a8..fc06eee65 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -324,9 +324,9 @@ Portage supports cross-compilation into a subdirectory specified by \fBROOT\fR.
what autotools calls CBUILD.
Its packages are contained in the root of the filesystem ("\fI/\fR").
If \fBROOT\fR is "\fI/\fR", all dependency types will be installed there.
-Otherwise, starting from experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR, only \fBHDEPEND\fR
-is installed into "\fI/\fR".
-In \fBEAPI 5\fR and earlier, the behaviour is controlled by the
+Otherwise, for EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental
+\fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR), only \fBHDEPEND\fR is installed into "\fI/\fR".
+For EAPIs that do not support \fBHDEPEND\fR, the behaviour is controlled by the
\fI\-\-root-deps\fR flag to \fBemerge\fR(1), defaulting to install only
\fBDEPEND\fR into the \fIhost\fR.
.TP
@@ -337,11 +337,11 @@ The directory housing this system is specified by \fBROOT\fR.
If it is different from "\fI/\fR", i.e. \fIhost\fR and \fItarget\fR are not the
same, this variable contains the path to the directory housing the \fItarget\fR
system.
-Starting from experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR, \fBDEPEND\fR and \fBRDEPEND\fR
+For EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR),
+\fBDEPEND\fR, \fBRDEPEND\fR, and \fBPDEPEND\fR
list the \fItarget\fR dependencies, i.e. those to be installed into \fBROOT\fR.
-In \fBEAPI 5\fR and earlier, the \fBemerge\fR(1) flag \fI\-\-root-deps\fR
-controlled what the package manager installed there, defaulting to only
-\fBRDEPEND\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.
.PP
See section \fBVARIABLES\fR for more information about the \fBDEPEND\fR,
\fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBHDEPEND\fR variables.
diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index 5861bb652..4720e2623 100644
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -711,11 +711,12 @@ of packages for \fBROOT\fR.
This option is only meaningful when used together with \fBROOT\fR and it should
not be enabled under normal circumstances!
-Affects \fBEAPI 5\fR and earlier ebuilds only.
-Experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR and later provide \fBHDEPEND\fR as a new
+Does not affect EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR.
+Experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR provides \fBHDEPEND\fR as a new
means to adjust installation into "\fI/\fR" and \fBROOT\fR.
-If \fBEAPI 5\fR and earlier ebuilds are built in the same \fBemerge\fR run as
-\fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR and later ebuilds, this option affects only the former.
+If ebuilds using EAPIs which \fBdo not\fR support \fBHDEPEND\fR are built in
+the same \fBemerge\fR run as those using EAPIs which \fBdo\fR support
+\fBHDEPEND\fR, this option affects only the former.
.TP
.BR "\-\-select [ y | n ]"
Add specified packages to the world set (inverse of