[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

[Ryan Hill]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:30:20 +0400
Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> wrote:

> В Срд, 14/10/2009 в 22:12 -0600, Ryan Hill пишет:
> > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:11:14 +0200
> > Peter Hjalmarsson <xake@×××××××××.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry for reviving an old thread, but was there any progress on this
> > > topic?
>
> > A week isn't old. ;)  I'll add it once the flu and homework let up for a
> > minute.
>
> Why don't you like Jeroen's suggestion? It looks more much more sane.
> Currently dbus ebuild allows installation of package upstream never
> intended to be installed on end-user stations and this is bug in ebuild
> that should be fixed. And I don't think it's good idea to workaround
> this bug with yet another USE flag which, when enabled, will still allow
> users to install broken package on the system. Not speaking that this
> USE flag could be easily overused.
>
> Twice build (one for installation and one for testsuite run) is really
> not hard since dbus allows out of sources build (/me just checked this).

I want a more general solution, as eva asked for in the bug.  I also want a
testing feature that allows more control than always on or off.  Other
packages already employ USE flags for testing or debug features that
shouldn't normally be enabled (even w/ USE=test).  I'd just like to make it
consistent.

But, that said, I'm happy to let the dbus guys what they want to do.


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