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authorTuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com>2016-08-30 12:43:37 +0300
committerTuomas Tynkkynen <tuomas@tuxera.com>2016-08-30 12:43:37 +0300
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'dezgeg/shuffle-outputs' into staging
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14766
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-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml11
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml
index 1245411be17..29fdc104a7d 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1609.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,17 @@ following incompatible changes:</para>
 <itemizedlist>
 
   <listitem>
+    <para>A large number of packages have been converted to use the multiple outputs feature
+      of Nix to greatly reduce the amount of required disk space. This may require changes
+      to any custom packages to make them build again; see the relevant chapter in the
+      Nixpkgs manual for more information. (Additional caveat to packagers: some packaging conventions
+      related to multiple-output packages
+      <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/14766">were changed</link>
+      late (August 2016) in the release cycle and differ from the initial introduction of multiple outputs.)
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
     <para>Shell aliases for systemd sub-commands
     <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/15598">were dropped</link>:
     <command>start</command>, <command>stop</command>,