On Saturday 13 November 2004 15:43, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 13/11/2004-05:44:49(-0600): Matthew Kenendy types
>
> > Perhaps doins should take a --strict argument, whose absence will be
> > compatible with what I do now and whose presence will be appreciated
> > by those developers forgetting to install init.d run scripts etc.
>
> "--strict" v.s. "|| die"
>
> If this is the case, I'd say "|| die" is the more intuitive. Devs who
> forget will not appreciate --strict, because it doesn't make much of a
> difference if they had to add --strict or append "|| die".
>
> do* et al, should either always die, or be left as they are.
>
> In fact, a "--relaxed" option to those functions makes more sense.

I agree, even when files might be missing I surely want the packagers to 
know that. I've had some times when a new upstream tarbal did not contain 
a file anymore, while I was still installing it. If the do* functions had 
just died as to be expected, I would have caught the bug. Relying on 
developers never forgetting ||die is not a smart way to handle it.

Paul

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