Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild etiquette and problems

[Terje Kvernes]

Jon Nelson <jnelson@×××××××.net> writes:

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> It's common practice to use || die with make and configure, why
> isn't it with other, just-as-critical parts of the
> unpack;build;install process?

  lazyness, and the "this works"-attitude -- without concern for
  external bugs, like partitions going full or physical errors.  the
  problem is that it looks horrid to include || die everywhere.  if
  we're planning on doing something like that it should probably done
  via 'set -e' instead.

  you do have a good point though, and I'll make an effort to
  construct my ebuilds better.

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Terje