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>>>>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2015, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> The function can return one of the following return codes: |
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> - 0 -- indicating that the package should be rebuilt from ebuild |
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> (changes occured), |
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> - 1 -- indicating that the package needs not be rebuilt. |
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> The function must use 'die' if an error preventing the function |
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> from determining the state occurs. |
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Wouldn't it be feasible to leave error handling in that case to the |
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caller, i.e. have a third return code for the case there is some |
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failure? |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482666#c2 |
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> The function can output any user-oriented messages. The following |
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> output functions are made available: einfo, einfon, elog, ewarn, |
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> eerror, ebegin, eend. The following additional functions are |
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> available: die, assert, has, hasv, hasq. |
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No use/usev/usex functions? There might be cases where a rebuild is |
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only needed for a certain combination of USE flags. |
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Ulrich |
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