document new version suffix style #166522

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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index 0ebf0e11dfbe77ffa3879bb1c00060358b3590a9..892824bc1d4abae6ad977a4f81916e443e094158 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -185,8 +185,8 @@ The base atom is just a full category/packagename.  Hence, these are base atoms:
 .TP
 .B Atom Versions
 It is nice to be more specific and say that only certain versions of atoms are
-acceptable.  Note that versions must be combined with a prefix (see below).  Hence
-you may add a version number as a postfix to the base:
+acceptable.  Note that versions must be combined with a prefix (see below).  
+Hence you may add a version number as a postfix to the base:
 
 .nf
 sys\-apps/sed\fI\-4.0.5\fR
@@ -195,11 +195,12 @@ net\-misc/dhcp\fI\-3.0_p2\fR
 .fi
 
 Versions are normally made up of two or three numbers separated by periods, such
-as 1.2 or 4.5.2.  This string may be followed by a character such as 1.2a or 4.5.2z.
-Note that this letter is \fBnot\fR meant to indicate alpha, beta, etc... status.
-For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha, _beta, _pre (pre\-release), _rc
-(release candidate), or _p (patch).  This means for the 3rd pre\-release of a package,
-you would use something like 1.2_pre3.
+as 1.2 or 4.5.2.  This string may be followed by a character such as 1.2a or 
+4.5.2z.  Note that this letter is \fBnot\fR meant to indicate alpha, beta, 
+etc... status.  For that, use the optional suffix; either _alpha, _beta, _pre 
+(pre\-release), _rc (release candidate), or _p (patch).  This means for the 
+3rd pre\-release of a package, you would use something like 1.2_pre3.  The 
+suffixes here can be arbitrarily chained without limitation.
 .TP
 .B Atom Prefix Operators [> >= = <= <]
 Sometimes you want to be able to depend on general versions rather than specifying