Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Improve description of USE=test

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 08/24/2018 04:14 PM, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> 
> Il 24/08/18 19:08, Mike Gilbert ha scritto:
>> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:45 AM Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:27:01 -0400
>>> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you want to define behavior that can be relied upon in ebuilds, it
>>>> should be specified in PMS. PMS does not define any meaning for the
>>>> "test" USE flag.
>>> We should eschew idealism about how the world *should* behave, and avoid
>>> making portage a steaming garbage heap in order to comply with a
>>> terrible PMS specification of a heavily used feature.
>> Portage still works just fine for most people who would enable
>> FEATURES=test. Stop exaggerating.
>>
> People enabling FEATURES=test on most but not all packages had some
> troubles and they need to disable them in both package.{env,use}
> I'd like to have a flag to reinstate the previous portage behaviour, but
> that's probably too late

Would a FEATURES setting that implies RESTRICT="!test? ( test )" for all
ebuilds do what you want?
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Thanks,
Zac