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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:03:37
Message-Id: 200607171800.05315.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default by Aron Griffis
1 On Monday 17 July 2006 11:14, Aron Griffis wrote:
2 > Vapier wrote: [Thu Jul 13 2006, 11:32:39PM EDT]
3 >
4 > > On Wednesday 12 July 2006 13:37, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
5 > > > SpanKY complained that he cannot set a custom die message then. But
6 > > > this is not needed here, since every do* command can be clearly
7 > > > identified by the argument and the directory it will be installed to.
8 > >
9 > > except for the times where the do funcs can install the same file in
10 > > different code paths
11 >
12 > Maybe fixup die() to include the call stack w/ function line numbers?
13 >
14 > I can't tell from your reply whether you dislike do* dying
15 > automatically, or if you just don't like some implementation details.
16 > Which is it?
17
18 at this point i'm against it due to the loss of information/granularity in the
19 die message ... and utilizing DIE_MSG is garbage
20
21 if die can be made more useful, then i'd be for the do* functions calling die
22 for me
23 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Making dobin, doexe, doins, doman, dodoc die by default "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>