>>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Robert Buchholz wrote:
>> So if the ebuild includes non-existing files in DOCS, then why would
>> you want to suppress the warnings?
> I don't. My point was that the default action on an empty DOCS
> variable is to "dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README", and this
> should not emit warnings, because it is merely a heuristic.
> To be clearer:
> else
> - # No die here because we don't know if any of these exist
> - dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README
> + for x in AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README; do
> + if [ -e ${x} ]; then
> + dodoc ${x} || die "dodoc ${x} failed"
> + fi
> + done
> fi
I agree. You (and Petteri) are absolutely right.
Ulrich
