From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 17:09:58 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Documnet EAPI in the MASKED PACKAGES section.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_pre1~718
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1654a7bcc52d873356ccd5811df3d611ef23d6a5;p=portage.git

Documnet EAPI in the MASKED PACKAGES section.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=7951
---

diff --git a/man/emerge.1 b/man/emerge.1
index 2c038bbb7..2439618c6 100644
--- a/man/emerge.1
+++ b/man/emerge.1
@@ -543,6 +543,11 @@ The \fBpackage.mask\fR file primarily blocks the use of packages that cause
 problems or are known to have issues on different systems.  It resides in
 \fI/usr/portage/profiles\fR.
 .TP
+.BR EAPI
+The \fBEAPI\fR variable in an \fBebuild\fR(5) file is used to mask packages
+that are not supported by the current version of portage. Packages masked by
+\fBEAPI\fR can only be installed after portage has been upgraded.
+.TP
 .BR KEYWORDS
 The \fBKEYWORDS\fR variable in an \fBebuild\fR file is also used for masking 
 a package still in testing.  There are architecture\-specific keywords for