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| -rw-r--r-- | man/portage.5 | 8 |
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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index e6119b537..8121e367c 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -589,9 +589,13 @@ repository name should correspond the value of a \fBrepo_name\fR entry from one of the repositories that is configured via the \fBPORTDIR\fR or \fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR variables (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). Repositories listed toward the right of the \fBmasters\fR list take precedence over those listed -toward the left of the list. Site-specific +toward the left of the list. \fISite-specific\fR overrides to \fBlayout.conf\fR settings may be specified in -\fB/etc/portage/repos.conf\fR. +\fB/etc/portage/repos.conf\fR. Settings in \fBrepos.conf\fR take +precedence over settings in \fBlayout.conf\fR, except tools such as +\fBrepoman\fR(1) and \fBegencache\fR(1) will entirely ignore +\fBrepos.conf\fR since their operations are inherently \fBnot\fR +\fIsite\-specific\fR. .I Example: .nf |