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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Providing consistent means to enable tests requiring Internet access
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 23:42:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170427234234.6775afa2@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493302453.1189.1.camel@gentoo.org>

On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:14:13 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> b. those tests can easily be enabled, and that fact is recorded
> in the installed package metadata,
> 
> c. the flag can easily be used in RESTRICT="" constraint to easily
> disable all the tests.


I see that as a rather important disadvantage. Why would we want to
record that in VDB ?


> What do you think? Any other ideas?

why not simply a new RESTRICT value ?


  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-27 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-27 14:14 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Providing consistent means to enable tests requiring Internet access Michał Górny
2017-04-27 21:42 ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2017-04-27 21:57   ` Mike Gilbert
2017-04-28  9:22     ` Alexis Ballier
2017-04-28  5:07   ` Michał Górny
2017-04-28  9:19     ` Alexis Ballier
2017-04-28 13:25 ` Kent Fredric
2017-04-28 13:37   ` Michał Górny
2017-04-28 14:00     ` Kent Fredric

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