On 03/09/2017 02:00 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
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> Under what circumstances?
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> ...
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> Seems like it is not possible to generate the above permission issue.
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I can make them up all day...
* VENDOR_PATH=VENDORPN="" and we try to "rm -rf /"
* A hard drive error occurs.
* Bad memory crashes "rm".
* Somebody is running a recursive chmod on /var/tmp during emerge.
* The tarball contains something you don't expect and can't delete.
...
Ultimately, the die() is there to catch precisely all the things that
should never ("will never") happen.
