diff --git a/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst b/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
index 1faa790f3..e4a8c60f7 100644
--- a/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
+++ b/documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst
@@ -782,12 +782,12 @@ This step in the build process consists of the following tasks:
    This task sets up the two sysroots in
    ``${``\ :term:`WORKDIR`\ ``}``
    (i.e. ``recipe-sysroot`` and ``recipe-sysroot-native``) so that
-   during the packaging phase the sysroots can contain the contents of
-   the
+   subsequent tasks in the recipe (notably :ref:`ref-tasks-configure`
+   and :ref:`ref-tasks-compile`) can access the contents of the
    :ref:`ref-tasks-populate_sysroot`
-   tasks of the recipes on which the recipe containing the tasks
-   depends. A sysroot exists for both the target and for the native
-   binaries, which run on the host system.
+   tasks of the recipes on which the recipe depends. A sysroot
+   exists for both the target and for the native binaries, which
+   run on the host system.
 
 -  *do_configure*: This task configures the source by enabling and
    disabling any build-time and configuration options for the software