1 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index a9922dfe31..ddf0ecd0c4 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -2708,23 +2708,20 @@
                         is configured, it might be important to mark the
                         packages produced as being specific to a particular
                         machine, or to mark them as not being specific to
-                        a particular machine or architecture at all.
-                        By default, packages produced for the target are
-                        marked as being specific to the architecture of the
-                        target machine because that is usually the desired
-                        result.
-                        However, if the recipe configures the software to be
-                        built specific to the target machine (e.g. the
+                        a particular machine or architecture at all.</para>
+                        <para>By default, packages apply to any machine with the
+                        same architecture as the target machine.
+                        When a recipe produces packages that are
+                        machine-specific (e.g. the
                         <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-MACHINE'><filename>MACHINE</filename></ulink>
                         value is passed into the configure script or a patch
-                        is applied only for a particular machine), then you
-                        should mark the packages produced as being
-                        machine-specific by adding the following to the
+                        is applied only for a particular machine), you should
+                        mark them as such by adding the following to the
                         recipe:
                         <literallayout class='monospaced'>
      PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
-                        </literallayout>
-                        On the other hand, if the recipe produces packages
+                        </literallayout></para>
+                        <para>On the other hand, if the recipe produces packages
                         that do not contain anything specific to the target
                         machine or architecture at all (e.g. recipes
                         that simply package script files or configuration