Hi, Ciaran McCreesh <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:12:02 +0300 > Mart Raudsepp <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is quite irresponsible to enable that by default for the FULL > > user base, given the state of the tree in regards to it > > Which is why we are not talking about enabling it for the tree. We are > talking about enabling it for a subset of the tree that's guaranteed > to have been tested by it. 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. 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. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
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