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-rw-r--r--man/ebuild.57
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
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.