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| author | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-07-04 02:44:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2007-07-04 02:44:41 +0000 |
| commit | 46cadcc5eacedda76ccb3f5091e101a82083926e (patch) | |
| tree | 3fd7f8d5eafffdc491ce2b84f8ec2beb40bd153e /RELEASE-NOTES | |
| parent | c1155ec45f2c4ee5732baa90c033d98b308be1bc (diff) | |
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Record a slot atom in the world file for any atom that is precise enough to identify a specific slot. Make depclean clean unnecessary slots of system and world packages. For update and depclean, world atoms can be greedy with slots while system atoms can not. (trunk r7142)
svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=7143
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES index f4baab289..f365277a0 100644 --- a/RELEASE-NOTES +++ b/RELEASE-NOTES @@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ portage-2.1.3 modification time or checksum differs from the file that was originally installed. The old behavior is still available by adding -unmerge-orphans to FEATURES. +* The world file now supports slot atoms such as 'sys-devel/gcc:3.4'. In some + cases, emerge --depclean may remove slots that it would not have removed + in the past. The emerge --noreplace command can be used to add an atom to the + world file and prevent matching packages from being removed. A slot atom + will be recorded in the world file for any atom that is precise enough to + identify a specific slot. portage-2.1.2 ================================== |