On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:45 AM Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:27:01 -0400 > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > If you want to define behavior that can be relied upon in ebuilds, it > > should be specified in PMS. PMS does not define any meaning for the > > "test" USE flag. > > We should eschew idealism about how the world *should* behave, and avoid > making portage a steaming garbage heap in order to comply with a > terrible PMS specification of a heavily used feature.
Portage still works just fine for most people who would enable FEATURES=test. Stop exaggerating.
