Re: [gentoo-dev] Make FEATURES=test the default

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> I'd like to suggest we make FEATURES=test (and therefore USE=test) the
> default behaviour, rather than the opt-in we currently have.  Far too
> many packages fail their test phase.
> 
> Since we encourage users to set CFLAGS in ways that upstream may not
> have predicted, if upstream go to the trouble of providing tests it
> seems sensible to me that they should be run, unless there is a very
> good reason not to run them.  This will help pick up faults that are due
> to the compiler version, CFLAGS etc much more consistently.
> 
> At the very least, ebuild maintainers and ATs should be running with
> tests switched on.  If the tests are known to fail then the ebuild can
> either RESTRICT=test, or just return successfully from src_test()
> where the test report is useful even if some tests fail.
> 
> Thoughts?

Give me some numbers on how many things still fail with that enabled 
because I would be concerned if the number is too high.
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