Re: [gentoo-dev] making dodoc and dohtml die when they fail and stricter is on

[Chris White]

On Monday 26 December 2005 10:26, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> I wouldn't like this.
> The reason is, they are also used in eclasses that might be generic; while
> for example kde eclass checks for the presence of files before dodoc-ing
> them, I would rather see it ignore the actually presence or less of the
> files, and just dodoc the one that exists, without failing if some does not
> exists.

I'm not sure if we're on the same page as far as the target audience of this 
change.  The target audience is developers/those with strict in their 
features.  The whole reason it's done is to be a bit more "strict" (hence the 
FEATURE phrasing) on general QA.  For users that don't need this level of 
strict checking, they simply disable the feature.  Generalized assumptions of 
code finding files simply isn't clean.  Checks should be done to verify files 
before attempting to install, that's just the way it should be out of general 
practice.

> One can be reasonably safe that it will find AUTHORS ChangeLog README NEWS
> and TODO files in generic packages, if they follow GNUs style for example,
> but sometimes they can be missing.

Yes, but while GNU style is indeed the more popular of build sytems, others 
still do exist, and will continue to exist.  I've always found dodoc should 
be checked anyways, and if we're assuming the documentation consists of the 
formentioned items, then we're also having the situation of missing other 
important documentation as well.  This all should be checked the first time a 
package is imported/version bumped for consistancy.

> I'd rather not see the change.

Chris White