On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:18:23 +0530
"Arun Raghavan" <arunisgod@...> wrote:
> We were just discussing if it makes sense to either die or issue a QA
> notice if one of the do* functions fail. It turns out that there's
> already a bug for this [1]. This potentially applies to all helper
> functions that don't currently die on failure.

This isn't as simple as you think, since quite a few of these utilities
are called using 'xargs' and so have to be binaries. Whilst Paludis can
deal with external binaries triggering a die because exheres needs it
(exheres has everything as fatal except where preceeded by 'nonfatal'),
I'm not sure that Portage can just now.

Also note that quite a few packages rely upon the current nonfatal
behaviour, so it'd need to be an EAPI bump...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh