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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>