From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 03:05:20 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Add news about USE=ipc.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1.9.15~19
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=beccae177a53650d2398088144c8e06d517c94b6;p=portage.git

Add news about USE=ipc.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 81255cb66..9234a1dc7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ portage-2.2
   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