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@@ -162,12 +162,16 @@ at an organization or company.
 - `editor` is a Drupal user responsible for editing and administrating content,
 taxonomies, and comments.
 
-No additional roles may be provided by a feature.
-
 These roles are provided by the Debut feature and so will be present if Debut
 is installed. However, to avoid unwanted roles, Debut features should avoid
 requiring the Debut feature if feasible.
 
+A Debut feature may provide additional roles, but such roles should have a
+scope no greater than the scope of the feature. For example, a blog feature
+might provide a `blogger` role. However, a technology blog feature should not
+provide a `blogger` role, since that role would be relevant to a more general
+feature.
+
 ### 3.2 Permissions
 
 Because Features will remove an existing permission from any role not