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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:25:07
Message-Id: 484F5372.80301@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 >>> - Enable FEATURES=test by default (bug #184812)
3 >> Only if >99% of the stable and ~arch tree and all potential "system"
4 >> packages build with it (IOW: no)
5 >
6 > Err.. Maybe this could have been phrased better but then I did expect you
7 > would look at the bug before commenting.
8
9 The bug itself should be phrased better.
10
11 > The idea is to enable tests by
12 > default in EAPI 2 and beyond and let them stay off by default in EAPI 0 and
13 > 1. This way devs who want to use EAPI 2 will either have to fix their tests
14 > or RESTRICT them. Doing it this way avoids the issue of having to fix the
15 > whole tree all at once. Users can still choose not to go with the default.
16
17 People will (and should) have -test in FEATURES anyway, good self-test
18 suites usually take more than twice the time to build and run, may have
19 additional dependencies that could take lots of time.
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21 lu
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25 Luca Barbato
26 Gentoo Council Member
27 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
28 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>