From 360fee65272a07017ba4a342e9e2c265d987b535 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:42:02 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] portage(5): document multiple parents in the parent file Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger --- man/portage.5 | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/portage.5 b/man/portage.5 index 379b20ce5..cea7e71f0 100644 --- a/man/portage.5 +++ b/man/portage.5 @@ -453,10 +453,13 @@ x11\-libs/qt \-mysql .fi .TP .BR parent -This contains a path to the parent profile. It may be either relative or -absolute. The paths will be relative to the location of the profile. Most -commonly this file contains '..' to indicate the directory above. Utilized -only in cascading profiles. +This contains paths to the parent profiles (one per line). They may be either +relative (to the location of the profile) or absolute. Most commonly this file +contains '..' to indicate the directory above. Utilized only in cascading +profiles. + +When multiple parent profiles are specified, they are inherited in order from +the first line to the last. If \fBlayout.conf\fR is new enough, you can also use the : syntax. The is the same string as is stored in the \fBrepo_name\fR -- 2.26.2