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

Submitted by Diego Sueiro on Jan. 15, 2021, 4 p.m. | Patch ID: 179185

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Message ID 69205bd753cb4d227383cbda083fb0bd52e09092.1610726301.git.diego.sueiro@arm.com
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Diego Sueiro Jan. 15, 2021, 4 p.m. 
Signed-off-by: Diego Sueiro <diego.sueiro@arm.com>
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 documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst
index e1dee8ecdd..2157b6fbc5 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