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Bug 25911 - inconsistency in ebuild man page and skel.ebuild
Summary: inconsistency in ebuild man page and skel.ebuild
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-developer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Portage Documentation (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2003-08-04 14:56 UTC by Eric Harney
Modified: 2003-08-04 16:47 UTC (History)
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Description Eric Harney 2003-08-04 14:56:26 UTC
In "man 5 ebuild", the example at the top shows "econf || die", but then later
in the man, there is a line saying
"*Note: There is no need to use '|| die' because econf checks for you."

skel.ebuild says "Note that econf will die on failure, but plase use econf ||
die for consistency."   (typo in the file that should be fixed as well)

These need to all match up somehow, the whole "|| die" thing is rather confusing
to someone making an ebuild for the first time.

Reproducible: Always
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Expected Results:  
Basically, all of the different places need to provide the same information on
whether to use "econf" or "econf || die".
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-08-04 16:47:02 UTC
they're inconsistent because noone agrees with me on the point ... and well i write the man pages ;)

updated the manpage on cvs, thanks