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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Change USE flags when compiling with FEATURES=test
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:42:51
Message-Id: 20120317194028.50cc1d2b@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Change USE flags when compiling with FEATURES=test by Matt Turner
1 On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:33:42 -0400
2 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
3 > So you run set FEATURES=test to run a package's test suite during
4 > keywording. Later, you emerge -vuNDa ... and portage wants to reemerge
5 > that package with USE=-test.
6 >
7 > Can't we avoid this somehow? I presume in the vast majority of cases
8 > emerging with FEATURES/USE=test doesn't actually affect what's
9 > installed.
10 >
11 > I'd guess we'd need to be able to remove 'test' from the set of IUSE
12 > and have a new helper function to check if 'test' is in FEATURES?
13
14 If you want that, USE_EXPAND_IGNORE_CHANGES, like USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN,
15 would be cleaner. 'test' is already too special.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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