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From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] New pre-GLEP: TEST_SUITE_PRESENT variable
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:08:14
Message-Id: A5F3B611-F38C-4770-9D7B-24C369C396C1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] New pre-GLEP: TEST_SUITE_PRESENT variable by Florian Schmaus
1 > On 20 Feb 2023, at 08:37, Florian Schmaus <flow@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On 19/02/2023 18.32, Michał Górny wrote:
4 >> +Abstract
5 >> +========
6 >> +
7 >> +A new ``TEST_SUITE_PRESENT`` variable is introduced to indicate whether
8 >> +the package features a test suite.
9 > I wonder if we could not simply use IUSE="test" for this purpose? That is, allow declaring the 'test' use flag, even though it is not used in a USE conditional, to indicate that the package has a test suite.
10 >
11 This might make the confusion wrt "USE=test should enable running tests" worse, as users will see every package with tests has it.

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