Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev-announce

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev-announce] portage-2.2 has entered ~arch
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:25:20
Message-Id: 20080620092729.15e66739@sheridan.genone.homeip.net
1 Portage-2.2_rc1 has entered the tree a few minutes ago and the
2 package.mask entry for it has been removed. New features and changes
3 are listed in the NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES files shipped with it, most
4 importantly they include:
5
6 - support for internal and user-supplied package sets
7 - support for GLEP-42 news items
8 - license visibility filtering (aka ACCEPT_LICENSE)
9 - new FEATURES=preserve-libs to avoid the most common revdep-rebuild use
10 cases
11 - support for use-dependencies (though not available to ebuilds yet)
12 - new blocker reolution algorithm
13 - GLSA integration via the @security package set
14
15 Official documentation on www.gentoo.org will be updated in the coming
16 weeks to account for these changes.

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