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diff --git a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
index 10b588352..95a8b95b1 100644
--- a/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
+++ b/doc/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual-metadata.xml
@@ -2526,6 +2526,9 @@
In the previous example, the <filename>do_packagedata</filename>
task of each item in <filename>RDEPENDS</filename> must have
completed before <filename>do_package_qa</filename> can execute.
+ Although <filename>RDEPENDS</filename> contains entries from the
+ runtime dependency namespace, BitBake knows how to map them back
+ to the build-time dependency namespace, in which the tasks are defined.
</para>
</section>