[gentoo-dev] Re: Making built_with_use die by default with EAPI 2

[Steve Long]

Petteri Räty wrote:

> When EAPI 2 goes live built_with_use should probably die for most cases.
> Are there valid use cases for built_with_use that are not covered by the
> use deps in EAPI 2? If there are we could add a switch like --noeapi2die
> to it.
> 
It would be nicer imo if we just added --or-die as a general switch to those
functions we can (and look at sorting out the subshell die thing for -exec
externals.) That way the decision to die or not would be down to the ebuild
author and always explicit from looking at the code.