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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: jakub@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:33:09
Message-Id: 20060712222322.7467fbed@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default by Jakub Moc
1 On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:11:01 +0200 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
2 | Stefan Schweizer wrote:
3 | > Jason Stubbs called for consistency .. i.e making doman and dodoc
4 | > also die when nothing the file does not exist. A simple workaround
5 | > in case an ebuild is broken: [ -f xxx ] && dodoc xxx
6 |
7 | Uh... Sorry but it's pretty hard to imagine something more annoying
8 | than an ebuild that dies after a couple of hours compile just because
9 | upstream decided to rename Changelog.txt to ChangeLog.txt and noone
10 | noticed during version bump, or because someone made a typo there.
11 | Fail to see any benefit from this... :S Ditto for manpages.
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13 Uh... Presumably, the person doing the version bump would have, you
14 know... Tested the ebuild before committing it. Standards haven't
15 slipped *that* far have they?
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