On 8/9/24 11:43 AM, 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. > > (This is arguably related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/867799 and so on > wrt dev-lang/python always installing tests.)
This reminds me of https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/InstalledTests so it's definitely not a dtrace specific issue. -- Eli Schwartz
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