Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:45:15 +0300:
> Alin Năstac kirjoitti: >> Duncan wrote: >>> If the user sees it, it means the maintainer failed to do his job. >>> The tarball couldn't have even been changed upstream without notice, >>> since it'd then fail the sanity/security/signing checks. I think >>> that's the suggestion, that it be mandatory for maintainers to deal >>> with, and the user shouldn't ever see it. >>> >>> >> You seems to forget the fact that Gentoo is a source distro and as >> such, emerge foo can fail on users boxes while on maintainer's box >> works like a charm. >> >> > Indeed but this really doesn't have much to do with using || die with > dodoc. Agreed. Within the limited scope of dodoc, under what legitimate circumstances might a file /not/ be there to "dodoc" for a user, when it's there for a maintainer? (OTOH, now that portage is recompressing all such files based on the PORTAGE_COMPRESS setting, I suppose it's possible the user screwed up their PORTAGE_COMPRESS setting. Still, if they screw up portage variables they should /expect/ it to have problems.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
