commit: 2d277427a32f09a27fabd6eec75dfaf51ed1d3f2
Author: Michael Orlitzky <mjo <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Fri Jan 12 22:56:52 2018 +0000
Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sat Jan 13 10:08:28 2018 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=2d277427
man/ebuild.5: document that dodir is for nonempty directories.
man/ebuild.5 | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index 42a0599fe..28e9582d1 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -1271,7 +1271,8 @@ Creates directories inside of ${ED}.
.br
.BR 'dodir\ /usr/lib/apache'
creates ${ED}/usr/lib/apache. Note that the do* functions will run
-\fBdodir\fR for you.
+\fBdodir\fR for you. If this directory will be empty when it is merged,
+then please use \fBkeepdir\fR instead.
.TP
.B diropts\fR \fI[options for install(1)]
Can be used to define options for the install function used in
