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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with  FEATURES="test" and   finished?
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 23:00:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100406230016.1a97009f@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hpfvsn$e87$1@dough.gmane.org>

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On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:51:03 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:

> > FEATURES=test 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.  
> 
> But most developers do not have the resources to test on all
> combinations of platforms.

That's why Gentoo has arch-testers.


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Neil Bothwick

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-06 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-04 22:00 [gentoo-user] Anyone ever emerged dev-libs/boost with FEATURES="test" and finished? Lie Ryan
2010-04-05 14:15 ` Paul Hartman
2010-04-05 15:53   ` Paul Hartman
2010-04-05 16:43     ` Paul Hartman
2010-04-06  0:11       ` [gentoo-user] " Lie Ryan
2010-04-06  7:23         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-06 16:17           ` Harry Putnam
2010-04-06 18:52             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-06 20:17               ` Harry Putnam
2010-04-06 21:59                 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-06 19:51           ` Lie Ryan
2010-04-06 22:00             ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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