Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Block ebuilds installing tests to ${D} by default

[Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/1/24 4:03 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > I suppose you are referring to dev-lang/python here.  Unfortunately,
> > removing tests from it is a non-trivial problem.  As I've mentioned to
> > you before, there are packages that actually import modules form the
> > test directory.
> >
> > Remember that Gentoo has a policy of following upstream, and this policy
> > is specifically targeted towards developers who expect Gentoo to
> > be a good baseline environment for developing packages.  By explicitly
> > diverging from upstream default install by default, we are effectively
> > creating an incompatible Python environment and requiring users to go
> > through extra steps to restore upstream compatibility.
>
>
> The "following upstream" argument is extremely weak.
>
> eschwartz ~/git/cpython $ ./configure --help| grep test
>   --disable-test-modules  don't build nor install test modules
>
>
> Clearly, upstream is giving you loud and clear permission to refrain
> from installing this. They even have a split in their Makefile variables:
> - LIBSUBDIRS: things that are always installed
> - TESTSUBDIRS: test files that you can disable

Ah, that's a relatively new configure option added in Python 3.10. It
didn't exist back in 2015 when I was looking into this.

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html#build-changes

Thanks for pointing it out.