On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Arun Raghavan <arunisgod@...> wrote:
> Hello All,
> 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.
>

That's indeed a good idea, and we can do a step further.

We can define a new EAPI which makes all do* functions die on error,
and provide non-fatal versions as trydo* where it makes it sense.
emake could also die since we currently add die calls for all emake
occurences.

Regards,
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Santiago M. Mola
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