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. (This is arguably related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/867799 and so on wrt dev-lang/python always installing tests.) thanks, sam
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