dev-manual: Add usage of /sysroot-only in SYSROOT_DIRS

(From yocto-docs rev: adc59efc4a6c56cc3b4594a411ae618d256d6ba2)

Signed-off-by: Diego Sueiro <diego.sueiro@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst
index 6281e0e3b4..65db4aed33 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst
@@ -2075,6 +2075,12 @@ recipe:
 
    SYSROOT_DIRS += "/opt"
 
+.. note::
+
+   The `/sysroot-only` is to be used by recipes that generate artifacts
+   that are not included in the target filesystem, allowing them to share
+   these artifacts without needing to use the ``DEPLOY_DIR``.
+
 For a more complete description of the
 :ref:`ref-tasks-populate_sysroot`
 task and its associated functions, see the