Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-portage/genlop: ChangeLog genlop-0.30.8.ebuild

[Doug Goldstein]

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.
>
> V-Li 
>
>   
Except that's completely pointless since Portage and the other package
managers print the EXACT line number where the call was made. So this
thinking that a die message is required to identify which die was called
is flawed.
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