On 08/24/2018 04:14 PM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > > 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
Would a FEATURES setting that implies RESTRICT="!test? ( test )" for all ebuilds do what you want? -- Thanks, Zac