Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles: make USE=test-install a global USE flag

[Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>]

Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> writes:

> This comes up often enough to justify it. Some packages have been always
> disabling this given there wasn't convention or wisdom on how to handle it,
> but this helps to provide that.
>
> See https://public-inbox.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/87ttftr9ay.fsf@gentoo.org/.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
> ---
> I consider the USE flag itself as having consensus, but I'll wait to push
> in case anyone has comments on the description.

Pushed. Comments welcome still on description, of course.

>
>  profiles/use.desc | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc
> index 78dc606950512..830fcabec611d 100644
> --- a/profiles/use.desc
> +++ b/profiles/use.desc
> @@ -335,6 +335,7 @@ tcmalloc - Use the dev-util/google-perftools libraries to replace the malloc() i
>  tcpd - Add support for TCP wrappers
>  telemetry - Send anonymized usage information to upstream so they can better understand our users
>  test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
> +test-install - Install testsuite for manual execution by the user
>  test-rust - Enable important test dependencies that require Rust toolchain
>  theora - Add support for the Theora Video Compression Codec
>  threads - Add threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads