From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:48:37 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Bug #273650 - Document that unset RDEPEND no longer triggers implicit
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_rc68~172
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=baeabac97ac257c0e18d8de91ed552d6536add94;p=portage.git

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 a96910e83..6113a641d 100644
--- 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>