diff --git a/doc/catalog-format-spec.md b/doc/catalog-format-spec.md index 62b8b4ae8..40a153d4b 100644 --- a/doc/catalog-format-spec.md +++ b/doc/catalog-format-spec.md @@ -829,9 +829,10 @@ provides = "another_crate_name" Systems that have their own package manager (e.g. Linux) can readily provide many complex dependencies still unpackaged as source code in Alire. Alire can -use these on supported platforms (at this time, Debian & Ubuntu. Do not -hesitate to contact us if you would like to maintain other distributions) -during resolution. +use these on supported platforms during resolution. At this time, the supported +platforms are Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Homebrew, MacPorts, MSYS2, RHEL, +SUSE/openSUSE, and Ubuntu; do not hesitate to contact us if you would like to +maintain other distributions. A system external gives a list of platform package names that supply the dependency natively. The platform package manager will be used to detect their