Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

[Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@gentoo.org>]

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Felipe Contreras wrote:
| On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
|> On 2/20/08, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:
|>  >  b) Error are difficult to handle since bash doesn't have exceptions
|>
|>  I disagree here: most errors are fatal anyway any non fatal errors can
|>  be printed and saved via the elog facility.
|
| Yes, for the most common usage that's true, but that think about this
| example: I'm compiling gstreamer-plugins-good, which needs libraw1394,
| but the compilation fails, perhaps that user is not interested in that
| particular plugin so a dialog can pop up and the user can choose if to
| continue without the libraw stuff or fail.
|
| I'm sure that can be done without exceptions but as the complexity
| increases properly checking/passing around error values/messages
| becomes tedious.
|

That's what USE flags are for.

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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

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