On Sat, 2018-08-25 at 01:14 +0200, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> Il 24/08/18 19:08, Mike Gilbert ha scritto:
> > 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.
> >
>
> People enabling FEATURES=test on most but not all packages had some
> troubles and they need to disable them in both package.{env,use}
> I'd like to have a flag to reinstate the previous portage behaviour, but
> that's probably too late
> That was a bug in Portage and AFAIK it has been fixed. It would be nice if people didn't add extra hacks to workaround bugs that no longer exist. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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