doc: add info about optdepends

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
index e8aa4b01..86becf4e 100644
--- a/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
+++ b/doc/PKGBUILD.5.txt
@@ -126,6 +126,15 @@ Options and Directives
 	needed at runtime. Packages in this list follow the same format as
 	depends.
 
+*optdepends (array)*::
+	An array of optional packages (and accompanying reasons) that are not
+	essential to the package, but would offer increased functionality or other
+	features when installed. optdepends are currently for informational
+	purposes only and are not utilized by pacman during dependency resolution.
+	The format should be similar to the following:
+
+	optdepends=('fakeroot: for makepkg usage as normal user')
+
 *conflicts (array)*::
 	An array of packages that will conflict with this package (i.e. they
 	cannot both be installed at the same time). This directive follows the