From 7916c9be3bdd7a226ddba5e403cc148eab9d513b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zac Medico Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 01:37:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the RESTRICT=binchecks docs. Thanks to jakub for the suggestion and antarus for the patch. svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=5168 --- man/ebuild.5 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 0c8031151..d0b0d0993 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -320,8 +320,11 @@ This should be a space delimited list of portage features to restrict. .RS .TP .I binchecks -Disable all QA checks for binaries (do not use without very good reason). See -the \fBQA CONTROL VARIABLES\fR section for more specific exemptions. +Disable all QA checks for binaries. This should ONLY be used in packages +for which binary checks make no sense (linux-headers and kernel-sources, for +example, can safely be skipped since they have no binaries). If the binary +checks need to be skipped for other reasons (such as proprietary binaries), +see the \fBQA CONTROL VARIABLES\fR section for more specific exemptions. .TP .I confcache Prevent econf from using confcache. -- 2.26.2