From: Zac Medico Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:59:59 +0000 (-0000) Subject: Add a note about automatic uninstallation to solve blockers. (trunk r9959) X-Git-Tag: v2.1.5~149 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9adc527620b329c2a7c815847a0f20dd61034ccd;p=portage.git Add a note about automatic uninstallation to solve blockers. (trunk r9959) svn path=/main/branches/2.1.2/; revision=9960 --- 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