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> So, my question is, why was the above bug was closed CANTFIX? |
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> Telling people to hack the ebuild to avoid a buggy test routine is |
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> not a solution. |
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I do not believe that the problem is a buggy test routine. Anything |
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that that test routine does, especially read the configuration data |
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with which perl was built in this case, will likely be done by the |
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user during the normal course of using the system. I find it much |
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easier to centralize the reporting of the problem, so that people can |
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more easily find reports of trouble similar to their own, than to deal |
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with the problems in the wild, where the failures will occur in wildly |
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different contexts and give us many more seemingly unrelated bugs. |
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As I have said in many places before, if maketest is enabled by |
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default, and users must actively set FEATURES=-maketest to disable it, |
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I would be perfectly happy. |
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