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authorDoron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>2020-06-13 10:55:58 +0300
committerDoron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>2020-11-09 16:17:41 +0200
commit9db44f61a78a3a1fea720de7465787383a52d010 (patch)
treeaeab4765dd9e6a15013070a61880507363e61001 /nixos/doc
parentf59f04352aace7ba228695de0ec8e716ce82134f (diff)
rubyMinimal: remove
Due to being unused, and seemingly unusable, added appropriate release notes.
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml
index 709b2ba5228f..f857f1e28b79 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2103.xml
@@ -90,6 +90,18 @@
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>
+ <literal>rubyMinimal</literal> was removed due to being unused and
+ unusable. The default ruby interpreter includes JIT support, which makes
+ it reference it's compiler. Since JIT support is probably needed by some
+ Gems, it was decided to enable this feature with all cc references by
+ default, and allow to build a Ruby derivation without references to cc,
+ by setting <literal>jitSupport = false;</literal> in an overlay. See
+ <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/90151">#90151</link>
+ for more info.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>
The option <option>fonts.enableFontDir</option> has been renamed to
<xref linkend="opt-fonts.fontDir.enable"/>. The path of font directory