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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:34:29
Message-Id: 200608061431.44896.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default by plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin)
1 On Saturday 05 August 2006 18:07, Tim Yamin wrote:
2 > Agreed. It may be better to instead have a FORCE="test" on certain
3 > ebuilds (mainly sci-* stuff where you want to be sure the numbers are
4 > coming out correctly) -- adding FEATURES="test" to the default set
5 > will cause serious breakage and will take quite some time to be
6 > fully fixed across the whole tree.
7
8 Comming to it. Packages that I maintain such as sys-libs/db and subversion
9 have test suites that only run correctly when all kinds of bindings are
10 compiled. They do not work in most useflag configurations because they
11 unconditionally test the bindings.
12
13 Paul
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16 Paul de Vrieze
17 Gentoo Developer
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