commit:     c874437157617d6bab2e5ae07697c29814142ecf
Author:     Markos Chandras <hwoarang <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Sun Apr 19 09:39:22 2015 +0000
Commit:     Markos Chandras <hwoarang <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sun Apr 19 21:01:04 2015 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=c8744371

ebuild-writing: use-conditionals: Add more information about the old `use foo` 
style

X-Gentoo-Bug: 546950
X-Gentoo-Bug-URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546950

 ebuild-writing/use-conditional-code/text.xml | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ebuild-writing/use-conditional-code/text.xml 
b/ebuild-writing/use-conditional-code/text.xml
index 3db3a40..bc95f84 100644
--- a/ebuild-writing/use-conditional-code/text.xml
+++ b/ebuild-writing/use-conditional-code/text.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ readable.
 
 <p>
 The <c>if [ "`use foo`" ]</c> and <c>if [ -n "`use foo`" ]</c> forms which are
-occasionally seen in older code must <b>not</b> be used.
+occasionally seen in older code must <b>not</b> be used. This is because, 
since portage-2.1, the 'use' portage helper does not produce any output when 
the use flag is enabled or disabled so the [ "`use foo`" ] statement is pretty 
much identical to [ "" ] which always evaluates to false.
 </p>
 
 <note>

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