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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: ignore missing directory in preinst
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:33:28
Message-Id: e77784d6-1c91-6f99-f4a7-3196653c49d5@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: ignore missing directory in preinst by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 8/15/19 3:19 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >
3 > I don't think that's a sane situation, so maybe the eclass should just
4 > die here? (Basically, there are two possibilities: Either, things will
5 > break if the dir is missing, then dying might be the best option.
6 > Or, everything works without the dir, then the ebuild should set it to
7 > /dev/null, in the first place.)
8 >
9
10 That's my feeling as well. In 100% of cases so far, this has been a
11 useful QA tool. Can we wait until that's not the case to change it?

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