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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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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