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-rw-r--r--man/make.conf.57
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diff --git a/cnf/make.conf b/cnf/make.conf
index 8b79e213a..23a0d9358 100644
--- a/cnf/make.conf
+++ b/cnf/make.conf
@@ -200,6 +200,11 @@
# are not filtered.
#EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=""
#
+# INSTALL_MASK allows certain files to not be installed into your file system.
+# This is useful when you wish to filter out a certain set of files from
+# ever being installed, such as INSTALL.gz or TODO.gz
+#INSTALL_MASK=""
+#
# MAKEOPTS provides extra options that may be passed to 'make' when a
# program is compiled. Presently the only use is for specifying
# the number of parallel makes (-j) to perform. The suggested number
diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 87aa510fd..2a509013d 100644
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -281,6 +281,12 @@ These vars are used if the sources must be downloaded from the
internet by \fBwget\fR(1). They are only required if you use a
proxy server for internet access.
.TP
+\fBINSTALL_MASK\fR = \fI[space delimited list of file names]\fR
+Use this variable if you want to selectively prevent certain files from being
+copied into your file system tree. This does not work on symlinks, but only on
+actual files. Useful if you wish to filter out files like HACKING.gz and
+TODO.gz.
+.TP
.B MAKEOPTS
Use this variable if you want to use parallel make. For example, if you
have a dual\-processor system, set this variable to "\-j2" or "\-j3" for
@@ -419,6 +425,7 @@ Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Nicholas Jones <carpaski@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Saleem Abdulrasool <compnerd@gentoo.org>
.fi
.SH "FILES"
.TP