On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:06:30 +0200 Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wednesday 10 August 2005 17:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Then please introduce TESTDEPEND, MANDEPEND and INFODEPEND instead. | | TESTDEPEND!? Are there numbers how many packages are affected and | what dependencies are in question, which are usually not available on | every box anyways?
There are a fair number of packages with heavy test dependencies which aren't usually installed. Typical examples of things that need to be pulled in are unit test frameworks (eg cppunit), extra archive formats (eg zip support) and extra debug-related libraries. Personally I prefer the DEPEND="features_test? ( blah )" approach. This also lets us use it in SRC_URL -- some packages have really huge test data archives that we shouldn't really be downloading for people who don't need them. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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