Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> 1. Redirect stderr to a different file.  And check for that file being 
> more than 0 bytes before claiming the install completed succesfully.

All programs should return an error code if an error happens. If a program
ends in error but returns a success code, that program is broken (and can
subsequently break other programs, such as 'make', which relies on programs
returning non-success on error.)

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                                                          - Warp

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