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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:23:10 -0500
Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Spider wrote:	[Wed Nov 19 2003, 11:48:20AM EST]
> > Don't emake  and econf both fail if they fail, making || die ""  
> > unnecessary and even impossible?
> 
> It's really poor practice to depend on this.  I argued against this
> change and was ignored.  Here are some reasons:
> 
>     - Calling die from econf/emake defeats the function and line
>     number reporting that are part of die.
> 
>     - Developers have to keep track of which ebuild.sh functions call
>       die and which ones don't.  It's really better to leave the error
>       handling in the ebuild in all cases so that the practice is
>       simply to call die in all situations where it is appropriate.

<AOL />


it only invites confusion.


//Spider

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