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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Running tests using virtualx.eclass should be allowed to be forced to run in virtual X always
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:43:21
Message-Id: 51E9182C.9050507@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Running tests using virtualx.eclass should be allowed to be forced to run in virtual X always by Pacho Ramos
1 Pacho Ramos schrieb:
2 > Wouldn't be better to make that tests *always* use virtual X?
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4 One issue could be that Xvfb is not very representative of a modern X
5 server any more. I am not sure how this affects the validity of the test
6 results. This problem however exists already with all virtualx users on
7 headless machines (bug 409925 might address this to some degree).
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9 You are right that using always Xvfb would be much less annoying to
10 someone running tests on his desktop computer.
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13 Best regards,
14 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn