Bug #273651 - Document how helpers die automatically in EAPI 4, and

the nonfatal helper.

diff --git a/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook b/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook
index 6113a641dfed2a26be3a7d3f39d312b227366db1..c81581d41dc2b90901b415aebbc0d6e8408bd758 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook
+++ b/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
 The dohard and dosed helpers from previous EAPIs are no longer available.
 </para>
 </section>
+<section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-helpers-die-nonfatal'>
+<title>All helpers die on failure</title>
+<para>
+All helpers now die automatically whenever some sort of error occurs.
+Helper calls may be prefixed with the 'nonfatal' helper in order
+to prevent errors from being fatal.
+</para>
+</section>
 <section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-helpers-dodoc-r'>
 <title>dodoc -r</title>
 <para>