On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 11:47 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Yes, and sometimes we're doing 'use test'. I simply don't see how > adding a separate group of dependencies just for 'test' phase is going > to help us. They fit just fine into build-time dependencies right now.
It would enable us to consider making tests on some packages optional to break circular dependencies with FEATURES=test, i.e. only run the tests if the test dependencies can be installed without circular dependencies. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175808 Hans
