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Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> posted 44FAFCAF.8010108@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:02:55 -0400: |
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> I asked each member of the portage team (minus Marius, whom I did find |
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> on irc) what they were up to in terms of working on things. Zac |
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> informed me that 2.1.1 would be out of rc status on the 8th and that |
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> users could expect a few new features and many bugfixes. |
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> From the NEWS file in svn: |
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> * Profiles support use.force, package.use.force, and package.use.mask files. |
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> * New depclean algorithm is much safer than the old one. |
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I'm not sure who to credit but the emerge --newuse implementation is much |
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better now too, and catching many USE changes it previously missed. =8^) |
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That leads to my point, however, which is this, the first time after the |
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upgrade people run it, there's likely to be a rather larger list than |
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normal of packages to remerge due to the --newsuse changes catching all |
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those it didn't catch before! It's probably worthwhile to put this in the |
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NEWS list as well, and possibly put an ewarn in the merge for it as well. |
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It'd be nice to get coverage in GWN on it too, before it goes stable. |
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(Maybe it's already been covered, I must admit I'm a bit behind on my GWN |
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reading.) |
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I just know that longer list was a bit of an inconvenience for me due to |
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timing, but I'm on ~arch so I expect that sort of thing occasionally, and |
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I like the changes overall. It'd be nice to give stable a bit of warning, |
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tho. =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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