Re: [gentoo-dev] Some ideas on how to reduce territoriality

[Mike Frysinger]

On Monday 06 August 2007, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Mike Frysinger kirjoitti:
> > On Saturday 04 August 2007, Petteri Räty wrote:
> >> Steev Klimaszewski kirjoitti:
> >>> Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> >>>> dodoc calls should have || die and USE=doc should be tested before
> >>>> commiting a bump, IMHO
> >>>
> >>> Sorry, I didn't realize my 3 hour compile of $APPLICATION should die
> >>> because TODO wasn't around.  Vote against || die - it doesn't affect
> >>> anything aside from misc docs not being installed, if its really that
> >>> important, most people hit the website anyway.  (But yes, they should
> >>> be corrected and tested before committing)
> >>
> >> And is the average ebuild 3 hours and haven't you heard about FEATURES
> >> noauto? The || die is there for maintainers to spot when version
> >> bumping. If you commit a version that's broken with missing TODO and ||
> >> die you should think about if you are doing everything right...
> >
> > so you think everyone should be an ebuild ninja and know exactly how to
> > recover ?  or edit an ebuild to fix the issue themselves (you're assuming
> > dodoc was the last statement in src_install, not the first)
> > -mike
>
> Yes, every gentoo dev with gentoo-x86 access should know how to deal
> with it.

we're not talking developers, we're talking users.  it's inappropriate for a 
user to have spent significant time compiling a package only to have it fail 
because TODO does not exist.
-mike