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@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ recommended to postfix each file with .pod
=item provides/
-Files for inclusion into other packages
+Files for inclusion into other packages. See L</"PROVIDES">
=item description
@@ -184,6 +184,14 @@ these parameters and wait for confirmation.
It will also offer to install packages marked by B<depend package> or
B<recommend package>.
+=head1 PROVIDES
+
+The F<provides> directory contains subdirectories with the names of the package
+for which stuff is provided. Every time a package with a provides directory is
+added, updated or removed, for each of the directories in F<provides/>, the
+respective package's post-update hook is exectued. It is the responsibility
+of that hook to do something useful with the data in F<provides/>.
+
=head1 HOOKS
Hooks are little zsh snippets residing in $PKG_DIR/hooks