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From: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The usefulness of test in FEATURES
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:32:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050430173257.GQ8632@kfk4ever.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4273A47D.3050806@dir.bg>

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On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:30:05PM +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote:
> a day or two ago mentioned that i'm using per-package FEATURES in
> '/etc/portage/package.features-file' ("-collision-protect") so was
> thinking about doing the same for "test" (for half a day "test" is ON in
> my 'make.conf'). Think of putting it OFF for failing packages while
> still keeping it ON globally. Also will like the get some opinions.

It would be a shame if every user would have to find out for himself
which packages need "-test". Additionally, when the tests are fixed, 
the package will still not be using them. It would be nice if something
like package.features could become not only part of portage, but also 
of the profiles.

Maurice.

-- 
Maurice van der Pot

Gentoo Linux Developer   griffon26@gentoo.org     http://www.gentoo.org
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-30 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-30 13:48 [gentoo-dev] The usefulness of test in FEATURES Maurice van der Pot
2005-04-30 15:30 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-04-30 15:48   ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-30 16:32     ` Rumen Yotov
2005-04-30 17:32   ` Maurice van der Pot [this message]
2005-04-30 17:45     ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-30 17:54       ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-30 19:43 ` [gentoo-dev] " R Hill
2005-05-01  1:27   ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-05-01  7:27     ` R Hill
2005-05-01  8:59   ` Jason Stubbs

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