Quoting from gentoo-dev thread: > > Instead of 'exit 1', qt_min_version should use die. I use that in > > deprange and it does work inside $DEPEND. > > Well, it's more visible, but it doesn't stop the emerge. I just put > DEPEND="$(die)" into an ebuild to test. Here is what happens. It > also gives you an idea of why putting functions into DEPEND is bad: > they get evaluated A LOT. (jump down for more message content) I see now that in my case, emerge aborted on die() due to a side effect: beta kchmviewer # emerge konqueror -pv These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies waiting for lock on /dev/shm/aux_db_key_temp.portage_lockfile !!! ERROR: kde-base/konqueror-3.4.1 failed. !!! Function deprange-list, Line 426, Exitcode 0 !!! deprange(): unsupported parameters 1 2 - BASEVER must be identical !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. - !!! Problem in kde-base/konqueror dependencies. !!! too many values to unpack exceptions ^^^ Portage died due to a really bad DEPEND, but we can't count on that. So we need to set a variable DEPEND_ERROR=<text> in deprange(), and see it and abort in eg kde.eclass. Same applies to qt.eclass qt_min_version.
Irrelevant bug.
