-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:42:08 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 16:11 Wed 26 Sep , Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Thanks for the tip. I added "failed to install genlop (via dobin)" - > > > > not sure if there is a standard way to do this, as it seems many > > > > ebuilds just do "dobin failed", and some do "failed to install ...". > > > > > > It is mainly to localise which die command caused the halt. So I know > > > of no standard. > > > > if there is just one call to die in a function, then i usually dont bother > > ... > > but if there are multiple ones (possibly nested), then it can easily save > > time > > Cardoe was just telling me that die messages are not that useful or > time-saving because portage posts the line number of the failure > already. That prompts the question, should we get rid of die messages? > > Thanks, > Donnie No. They might contain useful information. Just the line number of the failure is just frustrating: You don't really necessarily know what went wrong, and you have to go read the ebuild to find out. Users might not appreciate that. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > Regards, - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+sspQa6M3+I///cRAr1QAJ9e1rGHNFBavGgR7pIxr1Xzaw12GgCg4lAK k5/iP9fH0kcmYlBdjTKcYrY= =BEej -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- éí¢^¾§¶(® X§X¬
