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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
