From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nz3lh-0004uZ-9R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:04:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75CBFE0A98 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:04:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90DB7E0993 for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (grunthos.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7C40E34572F for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:23:44 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:23:33 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with FEATURES="test" and finished? Message-ID: <20100406082333.1830c604@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5cvs43 (GTK+ 2.18.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/YcpE/S/0m0zaTFS_1m0BOzV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 75f7cf5f-d9b7-45db-ab5d-93230a97d445 X-Archives-Hash: 23bd247f887d2e8bbaecf24a8a6829eb --Sig_/YcpE/S/0m0zaTFS_1m0BOzV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:11:02 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote: > Anyway, I've been thinking about this for some time that turning on > FEATURES=3D"test" globally seems quite impractical for many users FEATURES=3Dtest is not meant to be used by users, it is a developer setting, and they would only enable it for packages they maintain and then only when they ant to run the tests. > Due to this problem, I think portage could have a test policy feature so > people can have finer control to filter out test suites that they don't > want to run. This way globally FEATURES=3D"test" can be more feasible for > most users (and probably can sometime be turned on by default). You can set features on a per-package basis by putting FEATURES=3D"blah" into /etc/portage/env/category/package. --=20 Neil Bothwick Pepperami. Its a bit of an animal. What animal & what bit? --Sig_/YcpE/S/0m0zaTFS_1m0BOzV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku64X4ACgkQum4al0N1GQOoJACcCwX1vav5S2hubQDyZlqZihtB IicAoLRKuzrR9k1nhmGjAeQdtkeZxqhc =uF2l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/YcpE/S/0m0zaTFS_1m0BOzV--