Emphasize precedence of repos.conf over layout.conf. (trunk r13371)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=13524

diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
index 03b93d6d62d6f4be6446aa7f02db77f4ee13942c..acce0471b97a471f06341f97dd00fe2b4f1c9883 100644 (file)
--- a/man/portage.5
+++ b/man/portage.5
@@ -588,9 +588,13 @@ repository name should correspond the value of a \fBrepo_name\fR entry
 from one of the repositories that is configured via the \fBPORTDIR\fR or
 \fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR variables (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). Repositories listed
 toward the right of the \fBmasters\fR list take precedence over those listed
-toward the left of the list. Site-specific
+toward the left of the list. \fISite-specific\fR
 overrides to \fBlayout.conf\fR settings may be specified in
-\fB/etc/portage/repos.conf\fR.
+\fB/etc/portage/repos.conf\fR. Settings in \fBrepos.conf\fR take
+precedence over settings in \fBlayout.conf\fR, except tools such as
+\fBrepoman\fR(1) and \fBegencache\fR(1) will entirely ignore
+\fBrepos.conf\fR since their operations are inherently \fBnot\fR
+\fIsite\-specific\fR.
 
 .I Example:
 .nf