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author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-24 03:59:59 +0000 |
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committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2008-04-24 03:59:59 +0000 |
commit | 9adc527620b329c2a7c815847a0f20dd61034ccd (patch) | |
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Add a note about automatic uninstallation to solve blockers. (trunk r9959)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=9960
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index 28e34b2e2..0addb163f 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ Features/major bugfixes are listed in NEWS portage-2.1.5 ================================== +* Blockers are now resolved automatically in many more cases + than before. When it's safe, blocked packages are uninstalled + automatically so that users are no longer inconvenienced with the + task. Automatically uninstalled packages are displayed in the merge + list, marked "uninstall" and highlighted in red. With the --tree + option enabled, it's possible to see which package(s) caused other + ones to be automatically uninstalled. + * The metadata-transfer feature is now disabled by default. This disables the "Updating Portage cache" routine that used to run at the tail end of each `emerge --sync` operation. If you use something like the sqlite module and |