On 9/18/12 7:07 PM, Hans de Graaff wrote: > 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
Oh right, this is currently a mess, which makes arch testing more difficult and slower. I think it's important to break FEATURES=test circular dependencies.
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