Bug 25911

Summary:	inconsistency in ebuild man page and skel.ebuild
Product:	[OLD] Docs-developer	Reporter:	Eric Harney <eharney>
Component:	Portage Documentation	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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
Steps to Reproduce:



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