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On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:20:39 +0300 |
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Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> Every single test on any package is going to be done slower than not |
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> running tests. |
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So? If speed were important, people would use a binary distribution, |
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or just drop to -O1. But given the massive variability of Gentoo |
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systems, correctness is a far bigger worry. |
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> This PROPERTIES proposal has no relevance to the argument of why it is |
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> an extremely bad idea to enable it by default. |
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Sure it does. It means that for any package where there's a really |
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large slow-down, users will only run the tests if they want to. |
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> > We've been over all of this several times previously. |
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> Yes, and by my understanding this will not be happening anytime soon, |
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> if ever, so I can repeat all my sound objections to it whenever you |
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> bring it up again in the more distant future, thank you. |
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Unfortunately, it looks like this proposal's one of those things that |
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some people will hate for ideological reasons no matter what. I just |
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hope there're enough people on the Council for whom QA and user systems |
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not breaking is sufficiently important that they'll vote in favour of |
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it. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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