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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Providing consistent means to enable tests requiring Internet access
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 05:07:50
Message-Id: 8622595B-63C9-4428-ACD6-83191F710FA6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Providing consistent means to enable tests requiring Internet access by Alexis Ballier
1 Dnia 27 kwietnia 2017 23:42:34 CEST, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> napisał(a):
2 >On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:14:13 +0200
3 >Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> b. those tests can easily be enabled, and that fact is recorded
6 >> in the installed package metadata,
7 >>
8 >> c. the flag can easily be used in RESTRICT="" constraint to easily
9 >> disable all the tests.
10 >
11 >
12 >I see that as a rather important disadvantage. Why would we want to
13 >record that in VDB ?
14
15 To know whether the tests were run.
16
17 >
18 >
19 >> What do you think? Any other ideas?
20 >
21 >why not simply a new RESTRICT value ?
22
23 How would you apply it to part of the tests? How would you prevent users from running networked tests by default?
24
25
26 --
27 Best regards,
28 Michał Górny (by phone)

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