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authornia <nia@pkgsrc.org>2022-06-23 17:30:14 +0000
committernia <nia@pkgsrc.org>2022-06-23 17:30:14 +0000
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doc: NEWS of jperkin's infrastructure change
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-# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.24 2022/06/23 17:26:27 nia Exp $
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PKGSRC NEWS
===========
@@ -7,6 +7,15 @@ PKGSRC NEWS
pkgsrc. The intended readers are the pkgsrc developers as well as anyone
tracking pkgsrc-current.
+PKGSRC_USE_MKTOOLS support added [jperkin 2022-06-07]
+
+ Added C-based tools to speed up various parts of the
+ mk infrastructure via PKGSRC_USE_MKTOOLS=yes in mk.conf.
+
+ For packages with large numbers of dependencies, you should see
+ anywhere up to around 10x speed-up for the 'wrapper' phase, and
+ perhaps more importantly a huge reduction in system time usage.
+
Linux infrastructure adapted to non-standard distributions [nia 2022-05-01]
The Linux pkgsrc infrastructure was adapted to support Linux