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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-02-22T11·27+0100
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2018-02-22T11·27+0100
commitddc58e789636e1b94149c342575d92583251fbf6 (patch)
tree2b06967dda7120ca7e2c78716d711d399e9ad4a9 /doc/manual/release-notes
parent6964131cd716b2ccf9d1f0a817b5cac483f87a9b (diff)
Enable sandbox builds on Linux by default
The overhead of sandbox builds is a problem on NixOS (since building a
NixOS configuration involves a lot of small derivations) but not for
typical non-NixOS use cases. So outside of NixOS we can enable it.

Issue #179.
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diff --git a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml
index 0d5296cc9007..f0f44ae260bb 100644
--- a/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2.0.xml
@@ -810,6 +810,10 @@ configureFlags = "--prefix=${placeholder "out"} --includedir=${placeholder "dev"
 <itemizedlist>
 
   <listitem>
+    <para>Sandbox builds are now enabled by default on Linux.</para>
+  </listitem>
+
+  <listitem>
     <para>Values such as Booleans, integers, (nested) lists and
     attribute sets can <link
     xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nix/commit/6de33a9c675b187437a2e1abbcb290981a89ecb1">now</link>