On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 16:43 +0100, Sam James wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working on packaging dtrace which doesn't (at least
> currently, may not ever) support running tests as non-root, but
> does support handling installing them for later manual use.
> 
> This raises a question: how should we control installing such tests? How
> should the user request that?
> 
> USE=test isn't suitable because:
> a) I generally expect it not to mutate the image;
> b) ago, rightly, based on this has a tinderbox check which looks for
> added/removed files when tests are enabled.
> 
> I'd like to pick some name which is suitable for us to use elsewhere and
> it's not really a package-specific issue. Thoughts?
> 
> Please assume the tests are large enough to justify conditional install
> and have additional dependencies.
> 

Sounds a bit related to USE=examples.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny