Bug #273650 - Document that unset RDEPEND no longer triggers implicit

setting in EAPI 4.

diff --git a/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook b/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook
index a96910e83ffa081436ede3055a3e9331a1c3b09c..6113a641dfed2a26be3a7d3f39d312b227366db1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook
+++ b/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook
@@ -33,6 +33,14 @@ configure arguments.
 <title>Metadata</title>
        <section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-metadata-dependencies'>
        <title>Dependencies</title>
+               <section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-metadata-dependencies-rdepend-implicit-removed'>
+               <title>unset RDEPEND no longer triggers implicit setting</title>
+               <para>
+               When the RDEPEND variable is unset within an ebuild, it will remain
+               empty. In prior EAPIs, if RDEPEND was left unset then it was
+               implicitly set to the value of DEPEND.
+               </para>
+               </section>
                <section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-metadata-dependencies-use-defaults'>
                <title>USE Dependency Defaults</title>
                <para>