Add a note about negative IUSE default settings being ineffective given

the default USE_ORDER setting which causes profile and user configuration
settings to override them.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=12057

diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index 8c9da6c08d46a975896760cad404678807909eab..02069b44e0ffcb5906f51c1af6a11999494aec61 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -180,7 +180,9 @@ arch related flags (see \fBKEYWORDS\fR). Beginning with \fBEAPI 1\fR, it
 is possible to prefix flags with + or - in order to create default settings
 that respectively enable or disable the corresponding \fBUSE\fR flags. For
 details about \fBUSE\fR flag stacking order, refer to the \fBUSE_ORDER\fR
-variable in \fBmake.conf\fR(5).
+variable in \fBmake.conf\fR(5). Given the default \fBUSE_ORDER\fR setting,
+negative IUSE default settings are ineffective since profile and user
+configuration settings override them.
 .TP
 \fBDEPEND\fR
 This should contain a list of all packages that are required for the