diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
index 7c3394bc59..633765519f 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
@@ -270,3 +270,13 @@
     another, but largely is used for building zenoss related zenpack
     ports.</entry>
 </row>
+
+<row>
+  <entry><literal>zope</literal></entry>
+  <entry>(none)</entry>
+  <entry>Implies that the port uses
+    <filename role="package">www/zope</filename> in one way or another,
+    but is largely used for building zope related ports.
+    <varname>ZOPE_VERSION</varname> can be used by a port to indicate that
+    a specific version of zope shall be used.</entry>
+</row>