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| -rw-r--r-- | man/ebuild.5 | 2 |
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 3c2200c6f..2652f89c1 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ For EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR), list the \fItarget\fR dependencies, i.e. those to be installed into \fBROOT\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. +Without it, \fBemerge\fR defaults to install only runtime dependencies (i.e. +\fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBPDEPEND\fR) into \fBROOT\fR. .PP See section \fBVARIABLES\fR for more information about the \fBDEPEND\fR, \fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBHDEPEND\fR variables. |