Andrey Grozin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008, Petteri R?ty wrote:
Who has been removing die statements? Is this a suggested way of action
somewhere by someone?
As recently discussed on the list, econf dies by itself, and || die
should better be removed after econf. The same is true for, e.g.,
eqmake4. It was discussed (don't have a reference to the thread at hand)
that it would be useful to have a table which shows which functions die
by themselves, and which not.
Andrey
I see this asked every X months and never quite figured out why, (this
isn't personal against you, Andrey)
%% pwd
/usr/lib/portage/bin
%% grep -l die *
ebuild.sh
etc-update
isolated-functions.sh
misc-functions.sh
repoman
So, that means that none of these die:
%% ls do*
dobin* dodoc* dohard* doinitd* dolib.a* domo* dosed*
doconfd* doenvd* dohtml* doins* dolib.so* donewins@ dosym*
dodir* doexe* doinfo* dolib* doman* dosbin*
or
%% ls new*
newbin* newdoc* newexe* newins* newlib.so* newsbin*
newconfd* newenvd* newinitd* newlib.a* newman*
etc.
Take a look for yourself and you will see why there has never been a
"table" or anything created. (it is trivial - and you have the source on
your computer already)
Maybe this should be a question asked on the new dev quizies.."How do I
tell if something dies on its own or not?"
HTH,
Jeremy
