On 03/17/12 15:43, Kent Fredric wrote: > On 18 March 2012 08:33, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> So you run set FEATURES=test to run a package's test suite during >> keywording. Later, you emerge -vuNDa ... and portage wants to reemerge >> that package with USE=-test. >> >> Can't we avoid this somehow? I presume in the vast majority of cases >> emerging with FEATURES/USE=test doesn't actually affect what's >> installed. > > Not so, there are a lot of things where USE="test" pulls in extra > dependencies, dev-perl/* is rife with them. > > And I've seen some things where USE=test changes behaviour of the > compile phase sufficient that enabling USE=test *could* change the > code compiled as well.
To expand on this, I know that sys-devel/gcc will save a report of the make check results to the filesystem when FEATURES=test is enabled.
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