>>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robert Buchholz wrote:

>> > It's not. If you want to have default DOCS then you should loop
>> > through the items and check with [[ -e ]] before trying to
>> > install them.

>> So, maybe just do a 'dodoc "${DOCS}"' and omit the die? Then it won't
>> fail but the warning message would be preserved.

> I understood Petteri's comment to be related to the default case
> (i.e. the else-branch), and I have to agree there: Ebuilds that do
> not override src_install should not emit a warning when some
> ChangeLog file is missing that the ebuild never specified to
> install.

The default would be an empty DOCS variable, or did I miss something?

So if the ebuild includes non-existing files in DOCS, then why would
you want to suppress the warnings?

Ulrich