[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April)

[Steve Long]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
>> > > you're proposing we suddenly bloat all of our src_install
>> > > functions for no gain at all
How big a bloat is it? Surely it's a coupla lines in the eclasses? Cos the
behaviour is inconsistent, as Ciaran pointed out.

>> > Well no, they can't, because there are a whole load of ebuilds that
>> > will break if they do that. But if it's introduced as mandatory
>> > (barring ebuilds RESTRICTing it) for EAPI 1, the tree will slowly
>> > move towards everything that reasonably can do having working test
>> > suites, which will be a huge step forward for QA.
>>
>> that's really the QA's job to enforce, not the package manager
>>
>> if the QA team wants to spear head a tree wide effort at getting
>> src_test up and running, they're certainly free to
>
> The arch teams have been pushing for this for a long time. They're
> trying to get this enforced, but are having limited success because
> there's no way for FEATURES=test to become widely used that won't lead
> to broken user systems. Moving src_test to be always on in future EAPIs
> is an easy way of helping arch teams achieve this goal without breaking
> anyone's system in the meantime.
>
I have to say Mr McCreesh's argument has persuaded me on this aspect too.


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