On Monday 26 December 2005 00:32, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > Currently there are quite a few ebuilds in the tree that execute dodoc
> > or dohtml for files that do not exist. I think it would be nice to have
> > ebuilds die if this is the case.
I wouldn't like this.
The reason is, they are also used in eclasses that might be generic; while for 
example kde eclass checks for the presence of files before dodoc-ing them, I 
would rather see it ignore the actually presence or less of the files, and 
just dodoc the one that exists, without failing if some does not exists.

One can be reasonably safe that it will find AUTHORS ChangeLog README NEWS and 
TODO files in generic packages, if they follow GNUs style for example, but 
sometimes they can be missing.

I'd rather not see the change.

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