From: Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:51:52 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Better documentation of PDEPEND in ebuild(5)
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.0_alpha132~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f2da08db6ad7b8c207a58f75e4daf96a74f29c56;p=portage.git

Better documentation of PDEPEND in ebuild(5)
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index dbd024cea..0d4d4e538 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -555,8 +555,13 @@ or earlier, then it defaults to the value of \fBDEPEND\fR. In
 You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR.
 .TP
 .B PDEPEND
-This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this one,
-but may be merged before if need be.
+This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this
+one, but which may be installed by the package manager at any time, if that is
+not possible.
+
+.B ***WARNING***
+.br
+Use this only as last resort to break cyclic dependencies!
 
 You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR.
 .TP