On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 20:18:23 +0530 "Arun Raghavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We were just discussing if it makes sense to either die or issue a QA > notice if one of the do* functions fail. It turns out that there's > already a bug for this [1]. This potentially applies to all helper > functions that don't currently die on failure.
This isn't as simple as you think, since quite a few of these utilities are called using 'xargs' and so have to be binaries. Whilst Paludis can deal with external binaries triggering a die because exheres needs it (exheres has everything as fatal except where preceeded by 'nonfatal'), I'm not sure that Portage can just now. Also note that quite a few packages rely upon the current nonfatal behaviour, so it'd need to be an EAPI bump... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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