Bug 601642

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: the man pages do not document the return status codes of commands
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description G.Wolfe Woodbury 2016-12-05 06:34:55 UTC

ebuild(1) and emerge(1) [and probably others] do not document the return status codes (i.e. "$?") provided by portage.  Can the appropriate section be added to the
portage man pages?

Furthermore, perhaps there should be a few more return codes implemented to allow shells to report better "error" conditions when driving portage commands.

Reproducible: Always