On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:26:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > Since the best solution to this exception is to finish that part of
> > the task which is not influenced by this error, I think the
> > expectation for this exception is clear.  
> 
> "Which is not influenced" - this is the crucial clause, the one that is 
> fraught with error. Who is to say what "not influenced" actually means?
> A complete lack of any related dependencies is one workable way to
> scope it. It happens often enough that it's worth the effort to
> accommodate it.

Isn't that exactly what --keep-going does, skips and packages that
depends on the failed package and merge the rest?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Bother," said Christopher Robin, as Pooh got out the vaseline.

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