-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Rowe wrote: > * Christian Faulhammer (fa...@gentoo.org) wrote: >> Some years ago as a Gentoo beginner I read the documentation of >> FEATURES and enabled "test", because it sounded useful. After one week >> I disabled it again as merges took too long and some failures occured. >> Read: As a normal user I don't want src_test for every single package >> that is installed on my system for whatever reason. FEATURES=test is >> perfect for people who help maintain the distribution or want to test a >> specific subset of packages they heavily rely on. > > I'm just a user and I run with FEATURES=test, and have done since at > least March 2005[1]. I've definitely toyed with disabling it myself, > but only because developers aren't using it, which means I catch bugs[2] > that would have never existed if the developer had `test' enabled.
Just because we find failing tests doesn't mean we have time (or inclination) to investigate and fix them. >> So imposing that penalty on everyone even the unexperienced will >> likely confuse some people. Go to the forums or the support mailing >> list to see what I mean. > > Package tests will have been run a -- possibly large -- number of > times when users see them if they are rolled in to the EAPI bump. This > isn't like the current situation of enabling tests and hoping somebody > has run them during testing. You conclusion that developers do not run tests is based on nothing. Using RESTRICT=test is not a fix and just hides the problem, so it is not unthinkable that packages with failing tests get to stable. Marijn - -- If you cannot read my mind, then listen to what I say. Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkngd5UACgkQp/VmCx0OL2yxyQCfeV2wrXCd3M2nrhGYRnQtBh2u O24AoJzvNKtnov0yjpQdtHao7fXcFPGx =Unhp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
