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From: Geert Bevin <gbevin@×××××××.be>
To: gentoo-announce@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-announce] portage 1.8.8-r1
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 16:19:59
Message-Id: 1012601928.19839.21.camel@inspiron.theleaf.office
1 Hi all,
2
3 Portage 1.8.8r1 has been released. Below is a list of all new features
4 and fixes.
5
6 For users
7
8 * added support for emerge --unmerge which respects an additional
9 --pretend flag if you just want to see the list of packages that would
10 be unmerged. Use emerge --help or man emerge to get the details about
11 how to use it. Don't forget to also read up on the additional --safe
12 option
13 * made env-update disregard backup files in /etc/env.d
14
15 For ebuild writers
16
17 * added support for a pkg_setup() function which is executed before
18 anything else and can be typically used for package configuration
19 actions or required system checks, the default behavior does nothing
20 and can be overridden for most packages that currently have behaviour
21 outside of the standard ebuild functions
22 * implemented the noauto MAINTAINER flags for all relevant ebuild
23 commands
24 * rewrote the packagename without category support to also graceously
25 handle deps specifiers at the beginning, this shouldn't be used in the
26 ebuilds, but is very handy when using emerge --unmerge. This is how
27 emerge handles unmerging "<portage-1.8.8".
28
29 Thanks a lot to everyone who has helped to make these features and
30 bugfixes being supplied so quickly!
31
32 --
33 Geert Bevin
34 the Leaf sprl/bvba
35 "Use what you need" Pierre Theunisstraat 1/47
36 http://www.theleaf.be 1030 Brussels
37 gbevin@×××××××.be Tel & Fax +32 2 241 19 98