On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:11:02 +1000, Lie Ryan wrote:

> Anyway, I've been thinking about this for some time that turning on
> FEATURES="test" globally seems quite impractical for many users

FEATURES=test is not meant to be used by users, it is a developer
setting, and they would only enable it for packages they maintain and
then only when they ant to run the tests.

> Due to this problem, I think portage could have a test policy feature so
> people can have finer control to filter out test suites that they don't
> want to run. This way globally FEATURES="test" can be more feasible for
> most users (and probably can sometime be turned on by default).

You can set features on a per-package basis by putting FEATURES="blah"
into /etc/portage/env/category/package.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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