From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:47:49 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Document the new COLLISION_IGNORE variable.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.2~740
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b0ea8b4b86ca715907cc6cff3ec34f7f1de0c665;p=portage.git

Document the new COLLISION_IGNORE variable.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=4563
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diff --git a/man/make.conf.5 b/man/make.conf.5
index 823c62145..b9c0baf09 100644
--- a/man/make.conf.5
+++ b/man/make.conf.5
@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ Determines how long the countdown delay will be after running `emerge clean`.
 .br
 Defaults to 5 seconds.
 .TP
+\fBCOLLISION_IGNORE\fR = \fI[space delimited list of files and/or directories]\fR
+This variable allows the user to disable \fIcollision\-protect\fR for specific
+files and/or directories.
+.TP
 \fBCONFIG_PROTECT\fR = \fI[space delimited list of dirs]\fR
 All directories that are defined here will have "config file protection"
 enabled for them.  For more information, please see `emerge \-\-help config`.
@@ -142,6 +146,8 @@ calls via the econf helper function. See \fBebuild\fR(5) for more information.
 .TP
 .B collision\-protect
 A QA\-feature to ensure that a package doesn't overwrite files it doesn't own.
+The \fICOLLISION_IGNORE\fR variable can be used to selectively disable this
+feature.
 .TP
 .B cvs
 A feature for developers that causes portage to enable all USE flags in SRC_URI