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On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:30 -0500, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> Aaron Walker wrote: [Fri Nov 12 2004, 06:42:06AM EST] |
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> > Firstly, new* shouldn't need to die since they just cp and call their do* |
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> > counterpart, iirc. |
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> except that we'd want to see the correct die message. |
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> - When calling the aforementioned commands in ebuilds, there is never |
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> a situation when a failure is expected. If ever a command fails, |
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> the correct action is to die. Since that is the case, there is no |
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> reason to put all the error-handling code in the ebuilds themselves. |
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> It's just a burden on ebuild writers, and instead the errors often |
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> get ignored. |
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I don't think the absence of some "installables" (ie. the args to doins |
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and co.) warrants a fatal error. Especially if you want the semantics |
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of a doins installing "any of the following arguments given to it". |
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If you really have to, just print out some diagnostic in red. |
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