From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:34:25 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Fix portage.5 man page to document the fact that some files in profiles directory... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_rc39~18
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=62e9c52a4ef25a187892784f8308fac10a072832;p=portage.git

Fix portage.5 man page to document the fact that some files in profiles directory can be directories.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=14104
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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
index 37bf93148..6cc46706a 100644
--- a/man/portage.5
+++ b/man/portage.5
@@ -143,6 +143,18 @@ settings, use \fB/etc/portage/profile/\fR (it supports all of the same file
 types that \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR does, except parent). Do NOT edit the
 settings in \fB/etc/make.profile/\fR because they WILL be lost with the next
 `emerge \-\-sync`.
+
+Any file in this directory, directories of other profiles or top-level
+"profiles" directory that begins with "package." or "use." can be more than
+just a flat file.  If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory
+will be sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together
+as if it were a single file.
+
+.I Example:
+.nf
+/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask/removals
+/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask/testing
+.fi
 .RS
 .TP
 .BR deprecated