CVS commit: pkgsrc/doc

["Nia Alarie" <nia%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   nia
Date:           Thu Jun 23 17:30:14 UTC 2022

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/doc: NEWS

Log Message:
doc: NEWS of jperkin's infrastructure change


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.24 -r1.25 pkgsrc/doc/NEWS

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
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Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/doc/NEWS
diff -u pkgsrc/doc/NEWS:1.24 pkgsrc/doc/NEWS:1.25
--- pkgsrc/doc/NEWS:1.24        Thu Jun 23 17:26:27 2022
+++ pkgsrc/doc/NEWS     Thu Jun 23 17:30:14 2022
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.24 2022/06/23 17:26:27 nia Exp $
+# $NetBSD: NEWS,v 1.25 2022/06/23 17:30:14 nia Exp $
 
 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