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* Re: [gentoo-dev]  RFC: USE=qa-test
  @ 2009-10-07 16:16 99% ` Jeroen Roovers
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From: Jeroen Roovers @ 2009-10-07 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:38:18 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Some packages, like dbus[1], have testing features that, while useful
> for developers and arch-testers, aren't something that should be
> foisted on users.  Dbus' case is extreme, as it builds-in functions
> that are useful for unit testing, but result in an insecure and
> unstable package 

You could build it twice in the same ebuild... Of course, you still
wouldn't be testing the same thing as you're installing, but then again
upstream releases it that way.


Regards,
     jer



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