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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:47:49
Message-Id: 20041111234522.40d8f48d@snowdrop.home
1 Just a reminder not to do thinks like einfo "********************" in
2 ebuilds... It's kinda ugly, and it's one of the few 'decided a loooong
3 time ago' stylistic things which is actually covered in the ebuild doc.
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5 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70848 for the tracker bug.
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7 On a similar note, please please please provide a message when using
8 die, especially if you're doing it in more than one place in a function.
9 No bug on this, since there're a thousand or more probable candidates
10 according to glark...
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12 --
13 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips)
14 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
15 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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