[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: USE=qa-test

[Ryan Hill]

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:36:47 +0200
Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 October 2009 13:13:31 Duncan wrote:

> > The proposal then
> > was to turn FEATURES=test on by default for a specific EAPI,

> ... which is never more than a proposal by people not fixing the packages.
> Just FYI, building gnome in a chroot I hit 9 test-failures out of ~150
> packages. That quota of failure is roughly stable all across the tree, so
> unless someone starts fixing the ~1000 failures it's just not viable.

Yeah, this is why I want FEATURES=test turned on for dev profiles.  By the
sheer number of packages that fail, it's obvious that most devs don't enable
it.  I know that some people will still disable it again, but I'm hoping it
will at least raise the visibility of these problems.

I try to file bugs for packages that fail, especially at gcc-porting time
since we rely on testsuites to detect miscompiled code or other problems.  So
a failure-free tree is something I'd like to work towards, even if it is a
pipe dream.


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