On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:42:02 +0200 Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Controling the test USE flag alone without the test FEATURE is useless, since
> it wont run the
> src_test phase.
...then don't do that? :P
> And being able to disable the test USE flag with FEATURES=test will result in
> missing deps or build-system args.
Add something like this to the beginning of the default src_test:
hasq test $USE || return 0
I'm sure there's a reason it won't work I'm not thinking of, but that's
the jist of the idea.
> Can you tell me any reason, why you want to expose and control
> the test USE flag independently of FEATURES=test?
So it can be controlled on a per-package basis? Circular dependencies,
unwanted dependencies, excessive testsuites, perpetually failing testsuites
that no one bothers to fix... You can mask the flag but it's inconsistant
and unintuitive. FWIW I currently have 22 packages that have the test flag
masked in package.use.mask, and probably a dozen more I just haven't gotten
around to masking.
In any case, this is straying off topic. I believe the current policy is
this: if your package's test suite requires extra dependencies, add a test
USE flag and make them conditional on that. I don't think there's any reason
it should change.
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