diff --git a/docs/source/config_files.rst b/docs/source/config_files.rst
index 72cc3b4b..9cdf8d60 100644
--- a/docs/source/config_files.rst
+++ b/docs/source/config_files.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ that lets you install any kind of package,
 including Python, R, and C/C++ packages.
 ``repo2docker`` does not use ``environment.yml`` to create and activate a new conda environment.
 Rather, it updates a base conda environment with the packages listed in ``environment.yml``.
-This means that the environment will always have the same name and not follow what is
+This means that the environment will always have the same default name, not the name
 specified in ``environment.yml``.
 
 .. note::