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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-12-13
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:56:06
Message-Id: 4EDD4BE0.5090902@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-12-13 by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger schrieb:
2 >> A moderately knowledgeable user would notice that something is wrong
3 >> from watching the build output for a couple of seconds. Portage however
4 >> proceeds happily because make returns exit status 0.
5 >
6 > portage would always proceed. the only thing that would stop it is the user
7 > hitting CTRL+C. and that requires the user actually be watching the build
8 > output. perhaps they would be for a single package, but for general upgrades,
9 > i doubt you can rely on that. what would be more likely is they try to run
10 > `cdrecord`, find it missing, find the build failed, and then file a bug. that
11 > workflow really isn't affected by the defaults here.
12 > -mike
13
14 In versions prior to cdrecord-3.00 it was actually the case that nothing
15 at all was installed. That would cause patrick to notice and scroll back
16 up in his terminal buffer now to see wtf went wrong.
17
18 Since 3.00 it installs a cdrecord binary that runs but doesn't actually
19 talk to hardware. Fun.
20
21
22 Best regards,
23 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyen

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