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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2010-10-07 20:05:20 -0700
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2010-10-11 18:39:23 -0700
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Add news about USE=ipc.
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in order to protect against uninstallation of required libraries.
* Add support for generic package sets (also see RELEASE-NOTES)
+portage-2.1.9
+-------------
+
+* There is a new ipc (inter-process communication) USE flag which is enabled
+ by default. This allows portage to communicate with running ebuild processes,
+ for things like best_version, has_version, and die calls in nested processes.
+ This flag should remain enabled unless it is found to be incompatible with a
+ specific profile or environment.
+
portage-2.1.8
-------------
* The top-level __init__.py for the portage python package has been split into