From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 06:25:46 +0000 (-0000)
Subject: Add news about splitting the top-level __init__.py.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_rc64
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ac21f12e425a8ba46f119ee2cbe64e25670f6f4d;p=portage.git

Add news about splitting the top-level __init__.py.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=15730
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b83577786..81255cb66 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@ portage-2.2
   in order to protect against uninstallation of required libraries.
 * Add support for generic package sets (also see RELEASE-NOTES)
 
+portage-2.1.8
+-------------
+* The top-level __init__.py for the portage python package has been split into
+  many smaller python modules, making the code easier to navigate and allowing
+  small parts of the portage api to be imported with less overhead.
+
 portage-2.1.7
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