>>>>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, hasufell  wrote:

>> PMS doesn't guarantee that die works correctly in a subshell:
>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-12800011.3.3
>> 
>> So the devmanual agrees with the spec, and the eclasses need to be
>> fixed.

> How does that make any sense?

It makes perfect sense. The specification doesn't require that the
package manager's die function works in a subshell, so ebuilds and
eclasses cannot rely on such behaviour.

If you want a different behaviour for future EAPIs, then PMS needs to
be changed.

Ulrich

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