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From: Mike Gardiner <obz@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:16:38
Message-Id: 1100225464.8750.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages by Georgi Georgiev
1 On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:07 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
2 > maillog: 11/11/2004-22:02:30(-0800): Tuan Van types
3 > > And there are ebuilds that do*, in*, new* without die. The ebuild will
4 > > emerged successfully with the missing file(s).
5 > > Oh, who is glark?
6 >
7 > Shouldn't do*, in*, new* die on a failure?
8 >
9
10 I would concur, in what situations would we not want a do*, or new* to
11 not cause a build failure? Shouldn't functions always install something,
12 and not be used for any sort of 'if something exists, install it, or
13 else don't bother'?
14
15 Mike Gardiner
16 (Obz)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@×××××××××××.fr>