From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:59:44 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Bug #273651 - Document how helpers die automatically in EAPI 4, and
X-Git-Tag: v2.2_rc68~171
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d3e7177bf5766500b7a23d7798fe1c5973deab2;p=portage.git

Bug #273651 - Document how helpers die automatically in EAPI 4, and
the nonfatal helper.
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diff --git a/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook b/doc/package/ebuild/eapi/4.docbook
index 6113a641d..c81581d41 100644
--- 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>