From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:29:33 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: man: mention that 99-default.link is shipped by default, and users hence need to... 
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man: mention that 99-default.link is shipped by default, and users hence need to install a lexically earlier .link file for it to be honoured
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diff --git a/man/systemd.link.xml b/man/systemd.link.xml
index bb3f90828..ecf7954d1 100644
--- a/man/systemd.link.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.link.xml
@@ -71,11 +71,17 @@
                 <filename>/usr/lib</filename>, pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename>,
                 disables the link file entirely.</para>
 
-                <para>The link file contains a <literal>[Match]</literal> section, which
-                determines if a given link file may be applied to a given device; and a
-                <literal>[Link]</literal> section specifying how the device should be
-                configured. The first (in lexical order) of the link files that matches
-                a given device is applied.</para>
+                <para>The link file contains a
+                <literal>[Match]</literal> section, which determines
+                if a given link file may be applied to a given device,
+                as well as a <literal>[Link]</literal> section specifying how
+                the device should be configured. The first (in lexical
+                order) of the link files that matches a given device
+                is applied. Note that a default file
+                <filename>99-default.link</filename> is shipped by the
+                system, any user-supplied <filename>.link</filename>
+                should hence have a lexically earlier name to be
+                considered at all.</para>
         </refsect1>
 
         <refsect1>