Add a note about preservation of timestamps on merged files.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=6812

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2bd401523048795188831f3d9cb4d6e5a7dd8d40..af9997bb77fd4e2d0477ad93676024014e3edfbf 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ portage-2.1.3
 * USE_EXPAND variables such as LINGUAS support a * wildcard that will enable
   all of the corresponding flags that are listed in IUSE for a given package.
   USE_EXPAND wildcards such as linguas_* are supported in USE and package.use.
+* The merge process preserves the modification timestamp of files that it
+  installs. The unmerge process will not uninstall files that are claimed by
+  another package in the same slot.
 
 portage-2.1.2
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