Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] use.desc: Improve description of USE=test

[Francesco Riosa]

Il 24/08/18 19:08, Mike Gilbert ha scritto:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:45 AM Kent Fredric <ken...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 10:27:01 -0400
>> Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> If you want to define behavior that can be relied upon in ebuilds, it
>>> should be specified in PMS. PMS does not define any meaning for the
>>> "test" USE flag.
>> We should eschew idealism about how the world *should* behave, and avoid
>> making portage a steaming garbage heap in order to comply with a
>> terrible PMS specification of a heavily used feature.
> Portage still works just fine for most people who would enable
> FEATURES=test. Stop exaggerating.
>
People enabling FEATURES=test on most but not all packages had some
troubles and they need to disable them in both package.{env,use}
I'd like to have a flag to reinstate the previous portage behaviour, but
that's probably too late