From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:01:35 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Note that file names in /etc/portage/package.* directories are sorted ascending
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.6_rc2~14
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bcd0543ea8b93967c294109eca4d706e4fb97dcd;p=portage.git

Note that file names in /etc/portage/package.* directories are sorted ascending
alphabetical order before being summed together. (trunk r12090)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.6/; revision=12091
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diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5
index fe8441176..808f1cd6f 100644
--- a/man/portage.5
+++ b/man/portage.5
@@ -370,13 +370,14 @@ virtual/aspell\-dict   app\-dicts/aspell\-en
 .BR /etc/portage/
 Any file in this directory that begins with "package." can be more than just a 
 flat file.  If it is a directory, then all the files in that directory will be 
-summed together as if it were a single file.
+sorted in ascending alphabetical order by file name and summed together as if
+it were a single file.
 
 .I Example:
 .nf
-/etc/portage/package.keywords/kde
 /etc/portage/package.keywords/common
 /etc/portage/package.keywords/e17
+/etc/portage/package.keywords/kde
 .fi
 .RS
 .TP