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-rw-r--r--man/portage.58
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
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