On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:22:24 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > > What? No it wouldn't. It would ensure that bugs were caught during > > the src_install phase rather than after a package has been > > installed. > > What kind of bugs exactly? The ones *created* by this behavior change? > I'd rather not create such bugs for starters, because it's plain > pointless.
You're missing the point. As of a year or so ago, dosym will succeed even if the dosym target directory doesn't exist, and even if it means creating arbitrary directories. Some other utilities, such as dohard for example, will fail under otherwise identical circumstances. There is nothing in dosym's name that suggests that it will create a directory as well as a symlink -- it is not like, for example, dobin or dosbin in this respect, both of which clearly are allowed to create a well defined, non-variable path. If anyone really *is* relying upon dosym to create a directory, rather than having it happen by accident, adding in a dodir beforehand when switching EAPIs is easy, and will prevent accidental directory creation. > If the Makefiles suck, file bugs upstream instead of dumping the stuff > on Gentoo users. It's not the users that will see this. It's developers. The only time it will fail for users and not developers is when something's broken anyway, and that's far better than ending up with a broken install. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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