Be more specific about the order of interpretation. Okay?
diff --git share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
index b07459f..aa8446f 100644
--- share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
+++ share/man/man5/hostname.if.5
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ A configuration file is not needed for lo0.
The configuration information is expressed in a line-by-line packed format
which makes the most common cases simpler; those dense formats are described
below.
+The order of the configuration lines matters, they are interpreted from the
+top down.
Any lines not matching these packed formats are passed directly to
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
The packed formats are converted using a somewhat inflexible parser and
