Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:02:55 -0400:
> I asked each member of the portage team (minus Marius, whom I did find > on irc) what they were up to in terms of working on things. Zac > informed me that 2.1.1 would be out of rc status on the 8th and that > users could expect a few new features and many bugfixes. > > From the NEWS file in svn: > * Profiles support use.force, package.use.force, and package.use.mask files. > * New depclean algorithm is much safer than the old one. I'm not sure who to credit but the emerge --newuse implementation is much better now too, and catching many USE changes it previously missed. =8^) That leads to my point, however, which is this, the first time after the upgrade people run it, there's likely to be a rather larger list than normal of packages to remerge due to the --newsuse changes catching all those it didn't catch before! It's probably worthwhile to put this in the NEWS list as well, and possibly put an ewarn in the merge for it as well. It'd be nice to get coverage in GWN on it too, before it goes stable. (Maybe it's already been covered, I must admit I'm a bit behind on my GWN reading.) I just know that longer list was a bit of an inconvenience for me due to timing, but I'm on ~arch so I expect that sort of thing occasionally, and I like the changes overall. It'd be nice to give stable a bit of warning, tho. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
