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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:22:16 +0200
From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Providing consistent means to enable tests
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:57:30 -0400
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:14:13 +0200
> > Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > =20
> >> 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=3D"" constraint to easily
> >> disable all the tests. =20
> >
> >
> > I see that as a rather important disadvantage. Why would we want to
> > record that in VDB ?
> >
> > =20
> >> What do you think? Any other ideas? =20
> >
> > why not simply a new RESTRICT value ?
> > =20
>=20
> How would a new RESTRICT value help? There's no way for a
> user/developer to disable a RESTRICT setting unless it is declared
> behind a USE flag.
>=20

What I was thinking is RESTRICT=3D"internet-tests" letting PM skip
src_test if users disabled it, just like RESTRICT=3Dtest. But this fails
when one only wants to skip part of the tests.