On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chith...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I agree that the ~arch ebuilds should be tested in the same > configuration in which they will end up in arch. However in this case, > the possible configurations for arch are a subset of those in ~arch, so > the testing covers those too.
Just because a stable system brings in fewer use flags doesn't necessarily mean that it is less likely to break. Use flags can have all kinds of effects, some applied when they are present, and others applied when they are absent. The value of testing comes from testing things in the anticipated future production environment. Of course, the fact that we stabilize individual packages and not all their libraries/etc at the same time already weakens this. Rich
