[gentoo-commits] portage r13523 - main/branches/2.1.6/man

[Zac Medico (zmedico)]

Author: zmedico
Date: 2009-04-30 07:20:17 +0000 (Thu, 30 Apr 2009)
New Revision: 13523

Modified:
   main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5
Log:
Add notes about eclass precedence for metadata/layout.conf. (trunk r13370)

Modified: main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5
===================================================================
--- main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5	2009-04-30 07:19:43 UTC (rev 13522)
+++ main/branches/2.1.6/man/portage.5	2009-04-30 07:20:17 UTC (rev 13523)
@@ -586,12 +586,16 @@
 repositories which satisfy dependencies on eclasses and/or ebuilds. Each
 repository name should correspond the value of a \fBrepo_name\fR entry
 from one of the repositories that is configured via the \fBPORTDIR\fR or
-\fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR variables (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). Site-specific
+\fBPORTDIR_OVERLAY\fR variables (see \fBmake.conf\fR(5)). Repositories listed
+toward the right of the \fBmasters\fR list take precedence over those listed
+toward the left of the list. Site-specific
 overrides to \fBlayout.conf\fR settings may be specified in
 \fB/etc/portage/repos.conf\fR.
 
 .I Example:
 .nf
+# eclasses provided by java-overlay take precedence over identically named
+# eclasses that are provided by gentoo
 masters = gentoo java-overlay
 .fi
 .RE