On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 3:15 AM Robin H. Johnson <robb...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> TL;DR:
> I'd like to propose a change where packages should NOT install their
> tests to ${D} by default. Such an install may optionally enabled with
> USE=test, which should be decoupled from FEATURES=test. Or depending on
> the color of the bikeshed, we add something new like USE=install-tests.
>
> Background:
> Python packages install a number of _test.py files, and related .pyc
> files. The files are generally useful for running tests after the
> package is installed, and may have additional testing dependencies that
> are not installed via RDEPEND.It sounds like you want to resurrect bug 531648. https://bugs.gentoo.org/531648
