Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Improve description of USE=test

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 21 sierpnia 2018 17:57:48 CEST, Davide Pesavento <pesa@g.o> napisał(a):
>On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 2:46 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2018-08-21 at 01:54 -0400, Davide Pesavento wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:00 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
>wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Improve the description of USE=test to clearly indicate what the
>flag
>> > > does instead of claiming it workaround for Portage.
>> > > ---
>> > >  profiles/use.desc | 2 +-
>> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > >
>> > > Changed in v2: added description of FEATURES=test relevance
>> > >
>> > > diff --git a/profiles/use.desc b/profiles/use.desc
>> > > index 078226b92250..bd360194a09b 100644
>> > > --- a/profiles/use.desc
>> > > +++ b/profiles/use.desc
>> > > @@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ taglib - Enable tagging support with taglib
>> > >  tcl - Add support the Tcl language
>> > >  tcmalloc - Use the dev-util/google-perftools libraries to
>replace the malloc() implementation with a possibly faster one
>> > >  tcpd - Add support for TCP wrappers
>> > > -test - Workaround to pull in packages needed to run with
>FEATURES=test. Portage-2.1.2 handles this internally, so don't set it
>in make.conf/package.use anymore
>> > > +test - Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run
>tests (usually automatically controled by FEATURES=test but can be
>switched independently)
>> >
>> > s/controled/controlled/
>> > s/switched/enabled/
>>
>> It can also be disabled.  Maybe 'toggled'?
>>
>
>Wait, are you saying that I can set USE=-test while FEATURES=test is
>enabled? Is that a valid combination?

Yes.


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Best regards,
Michał Górny (by phone)