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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 17:23:08
Message-Id: 5058ADAD.1060402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal by Hans de Graaff
1 On 9/18/12 7:07 PM, Hans de Graaff wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:47 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >> Yes, and sometimes we're doing 'use test'. I simply don't see how
4 >> adding a separate group of dependencies just for 'test' phase is going
5 >> to help us. They fit just fine into build-time dependencies right now.
6 >
7 > It would enable us to consider making tests on some packages optional to
8 > break circular dependencies with FEATURES=test, i.e. only run the tests
9 > if the test dependencies can be installed without circular dependencies.
10 >
11 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175808
12
13 Oh right, this is currently a mess, which makes arch testing more
14 difficult and slower.
15
16 I think it's important to break FEATURES=test circular dependencies.

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