From a2e36694d14cc895592b36ba812e55f5cfdd9923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:01:11 -0700 Subject: Re-word HDEPEND docs wrt "EAPI 5 and earlier" Referring to ranges like this is ambigous when when don't know what EAPI 6 will bring, and we have both EAPI 5-progress and 5-hdepend which add different feature sets to EAPI 5. --- man/ebuild.5 | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'man/ebuild.5') diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index ad73034a8..fc06eee65 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -324,9 +324,9 @@ Portage supports cross-compilation into a subdirectory specified by \fBROOT\fR. what autotools calls CBUILD. Its packages are contained in the root of the filesystem ("\fI/\fR"). If \fBROOT\fR is "\fI/\fR", all dependency types will be installed there. -Otherwise, starting from experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR, only \fBHDEPEND\fR -is installed into "\fI/\fR". -In \fBEAPI 5\fR and earlier, the behaviour is controlled by the +Otherwise, for EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental +\fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR), only \fBHDEPEND\fR is installed into "\fI/\fR". +For EAPIs that do not support \fBHDEPEND\fR, the behaviour is controlled by the \fI\-\-root-deps\fR flag to \fBemerge\fR(1), defaulting to install only \fBDEPEND\fR into the \fIhost\fR. .TP @@ -337,11 +337,11 @@ The directory housing this system is specified by \fBROOT\fR. If it is different from "\fI/\fR", i.e. \fIhost\fR and \fItarget\fR are not the same, this variable contains the path to the directory housing the \fItarget\fR system. -Starting from experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR, \fBDEPEND\fR and \fBRDEPEND\fR +For EAPIs that support \fBHDEPEND\fR (experimental \fBEAPI 5-hdepend\fR), +\fBDEPEND\fR, \fBRDEPEND\fR, and \fBPDEPEND\fR list the \fItarget\fR dependencies, i.e. those to be installed into \fBROOT\fR. -In \fBEAPI 5\fR and earlier, the \fBemerge\fR(1) flag \fI\-\-root-deps\fR -controlled what the package manager installed there, defaulting to only -\fBRDEPEND\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. .PP See section \fBVARIABLES\fR for more information about the \fBDEPEND\fR, \fBRDEPEND\fR and \fBHDEPEND\fR variables. -- cgit v1.2.3-1-g7c22