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From: "Gregory M. Turner" <gmt@×××××.us>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass error-handling post-EAPI4
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 02:31:40
Message-Id: 50860139.2030609@malth.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] eclass error-handling post-EAPI4 by Zac Medico
1 On 10/20/2012 4:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 10/20/2012 03:51 PM, Gregory M. Turner wrote:
3 >> Anyhow, given that eclasses can probably avoid auto-die() if they need
4 >> to, this leaves the issue of nonfatal allowing die to return to
5 >> callers... is there really any reason that die() needs to work this way?
6 >> If helpers always used __helpers_die() instead of die(), then couldn't
7 >> die() be changed to ignore PORTAGE_NONFATAL?
8 >
9 > Yes. It's a bug, as Ciaran said.
10
11 For anyone following this discussion, just a note that I've created a
12 bug for this issue:
13
14 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439356
15
16 A proposed patch is attached to the bug.
17
18 -gmt