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From: Tuan Van <langthang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:03:55
Message-Id: 419451F6.1010202@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 >Just a reminder not to do thinks like einfo "********************" in
4 >ebuilds... It's kinda ugly, and it's one of the few 'decided a loooong
5 >time ago' stylistic things which is actually covered in the ebuild doc.
6 >
7 >http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70848 for the tracker bug.
8 >
9 >On a similar note, please please please provide a message when using
10 >die, especially if you're doing it in more than one place in a function.
11 >No bug on this, since there're a thousand or more probable candidates
12 >according to glark...
13 >
14 >
15 >
16 And there are ebuilds that do*, in*, new* without die. The ebuild will
17 emerged successfully with the missing file(s).
18 Oh, who is glark?
19
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>