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From: "Chris L. Mason" <clmason@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES_maketest_question
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 15:19:07
Message-Id: 610e3466041130071933f743a0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES_maketest_question by Mike Gardiner
1 On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:53:09 +0800, Mike Gardiner <obz@g.o> wrote:
2 > Just curious but,
3 >
4 > Why do you, as a user, feel it necessary to use FEATURES="maketest"? I'm
5 > just curious as to what motivates some people to use maketest.
6 >
7
8 Personally, I use it because it gives me extra checks that a package
9 is working correctly before I merge into my system and potentially
10 break things. Since I am mostly using non-x86 this becomes more
11 likely.
12
13 Btw, if we (as users) run into a package that fails maketest, is opening
14 a bug the right thing to do?
15
16 Thanks,
17
18
19 Chris
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Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES_maketest_question Mike Gardiner <obz@g.o>