Document default behaviour without --root-deps for EAPI 5- in ebuild(5)

diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index 3c2200c6f7f9b45e49e63b31cccc98dac1dd2e6e..2652f89c1ceebfe68d21768dac7b6a4905857818 100644 (file)
--- 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.