Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal

[Michael Mol]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:47 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
>
>> Yes, and sometimes we're doing 'use test'. I simply don't see how
>> adding a separate group of dependencies just for 'test' phase is going
>> to help us. They fit just fine into build-time dependencies right now.
>
> It would enable us to consider making tests on some packages optional to
> break circular dependencies with FEATURES=test, i.e. only run the tests
> if the test dependencies can be installed without circular dependencies.
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175808

Thought: That might also allow you to split an emerge into two
separate jobs. I.e. "it's inconvenient, difficult or impossible to
have test dependencies installed at build time, but we could circle
back and run the tests in a test-only entry somewhere later in the job
queue, if the package build setup can support it."

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