From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HcePX-0000lw-Ed for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:19:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3E9I9ds018549; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:18:09 GMT Received: from smtp-out3.libero.it (smtp-out3.libero.it [212.52.84.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3E9ExSo013839 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:14:59 GMT Received: from localhost (172.31.0.48) by smtp-out3.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4611FE5E00B33055 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:14:59 +0200 X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it Received: from smtp-out4.libero.it ([172.31.0.40]) by localhost (asav-out7.libero.it [192.168.32.35]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fuOYn9-q774B for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:14:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (151.44.174.181) by smtp-out4.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4611FEBC01045668 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:14:59 +0200 Message-ID: <46209BDD.3090709@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:16:13 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070314) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 1 (Was: Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April) References: <20070401092940.1B4C26441E@smtp.gentoo.org> <20070413204647.2f3bf04a@snowflake> <46207158.3070103@gentoo.org> <200704141841.03297.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <200704141841.03297.csawtell@paradise.net.nz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 16f315d3-5dd2-4664-a35c-8e6b6478b7d6 X-Archives-Hash: 42a89cb9cf8e5db1887981758bd5d252 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Indeed, but speaking as a user, one wants the application to build and work, > that is after all the whole point of installing a package. If you have it on the tree it is supposed to work or at least have passed a round of tests on the developer system, so you don't want a round of test run before installing it. > >> not having it tested. > That all depends. If having it tested means that it _will_ work, I'd be > infavour of that. However I do appreciate that having every user's install > repeating tests which have been done thousands of times before is probably > un-neccessary. having no way to opt out src_test at user level means that depending on the system you: - spend quite a lot of time to merge certain applications - got the application fail to merge because the tests fails because it is broken or has requirements completely unrelated to the application or the usage you planned for it - force me do more unnecessary work restricting and unrestricting tests on the ebuild level. > > How about setting the _default_ for test flags to true for '~' builds and > false for supposedly stable builds? you can do that FEATURES="test", that is the current situation, that works as should =P lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list