Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-07 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 20:38:18 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > Some packages, like dbus[1], have testing features that, while useful > for developers and arch-testers, aren't something that should be > foisted on users. Dbus' case is extreme, as it builds-in functions > that are useful for unit testing, b

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-07 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mardi 06 octobre 2009 à 20:38 -0600, Ryan Hill a écrit : > Some packages, like dbus[1], have testing features that, while useful for > developers and arch-testers, aren't something that should be foisted on > users. Dbus' case is extreme, as it builds-in functions that are useful for > unit tes

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-07 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Ryan Hill wrote: > [... separate testing flag/feature for > complicated/long/somehwat broken test suites ...] > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/287722 I agree. However, some of the cases aren't quite clear-cut. Take, for example fftw. Its test suite takes about half an hour o

[gentoo-dev] RFC: USE=qa-test

2009-10-06 Thread Ryan Hill
Some packages, like dbus[1], have testing features that, while useful for developers and arch-testers, aren't something that should be foisted on users. Dbus' case is extreme, as it builds-in functions that are useful for unit testing, but result in an insecure and unstable package (I just "fixed"