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From: Markus Rothe <corsair@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Make FEATURES=test the default
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:33:58
Message-Id: 200608051531.13713.corsair@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Make FEATURES=test the default by "Sven Köhler"
1 On Saturday 05 August 2006 15:14, Sven Köhler wrote:
2 > So my question is:
3 > where's the difference between USE="test" and FEATURES="test" ?
4 >
5 > So FEATURES="test" means, that portage runs src_test(), right?
6 > So what does USE="test" mean?
7
8 sometimes packages require special package dependencies when the tests are
9 run. USE="test" triggers this dependencies. (look at gdb for example).
10
11 regards, corsair