Hi,

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>:

> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:58:40 -0700
> Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
> > You can't test everything.  I think for a small project like exherbo
> > where everyone basically sees eye to eye on a number of ideas this
> > works great.  Everyone agrees testing is super and they will fix
> > broken tests or RESTRICT them.  But Gentoo is bigger, and people
> > have varying opinions, and on this topic the opinions are rather
> > strong; so I kindly ask that you drop it.  There are plenty of
> > other far more useful features on your list that are worth your
> > time and will actually slide through rather quickly ;)
> 
> Well, the alternative is to drop src_test all together. If a test
> failure is meaningless, having the test is meaningless.

 No, some software like in sci-* has test suites that a user wants to
run probably before productively using that software.  But the user
should opt for and not against it.

V-Li

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