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

[Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org>]

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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.

Sure everyone likes to watch glibc failing? :P </joke>

Well, can't be done until bugs such as
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69343 are solved (at least as in
sticking RESTRICT=test there) instead of being ignored.

> 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.

See above. And even then, I don't think it's a good idea to force this
upon users. Lots of packages have tests that are very time-consuming,
and there are packages that always fail tests and it's pretty much
expected (PHP is one of them; and while the failure isn't fatal there,
it still takes tons of time to go thru those ~2000 tests). And there are
tons of packages where tests are more or less unmaintained.


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