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James Rowe wrote: |
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> * Christian Faulhammer (fauli@g.o) wrote: |
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>> Some years ago as a Gentoo beginner I read the documentation of |
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>> FEATURES and enabled "test", because it sounded useful. After one week |
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>> I disabled it again as merges took too long and some failures occured. |
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>> Read: As a normal user I don't want src_test for every single package |
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>> that is installed on my system for whatever reason. FEATURES=test is |
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>> perfect for people who help maintain the distribution or want to test a |
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>> specific subset of packages they heavily rely on. |
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> I'm just a user and I run with FEATURES=test, and have done since at |
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> least March 2005[1]. I've definitely toyed with disabling it myself, |
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> but only because developers aren't using it, which means I catch bugs[2] |
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> that would have never existed if the developer had `test' enabled. |
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Just because we find failing tests doesn't mean we have time (or inclination) to |
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investigate and fix them. |
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>> So imposing that penalty on everyone even the unexperienced will |
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>> likely confuse some people. Go to the forums or the support mailing |
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>> list to see what I mean. |
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> Package tests will have been run a -- possibly large -- number of |
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> times when users see them if they are rolled in to the EAPI bump. This |
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> isn't like the current situation of enabling tests and hoping somebody |
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> has run them during testing. |
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You conclusion that developers do not run tests is based on nothing. Using |
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RESTRICT=test is not a fix and just hides the problem, so it is not unthinkable |
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that packages with failing tests get to stable. |
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Marijn |
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If you cannot read my mind, then listen to what I say. |
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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode |
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