Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-10 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Wed, 1 May 2013 19:18:52 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 > Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 > > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > > > I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or > > > something similar to get it out of FE

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests

2013-05-01 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/01/2013 09:18 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 > Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 >> Ryan Hill wrote: >> >>> I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or >>> something

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
On 2 May 2013 16:21, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 May 2013 21:24:07 Kent Fredric wrote: > > please do not top post > -mike > My apologies, Gmail has forced upon us this new message composer, and it sucks, it actively discourages bottom posting, and I'm stuck with it. I even complain

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Kent Fredric
2 other classes of tests you may want to consider : - network/internet accessibility required tests - markers for tests that are known/expected to fail under many conditions and are not worth end-user-testing, but end-users can force-running any way if they really want to see the individual failur

[gentoo-dev] Re: Handling of tests (was: GCC USE flag changes)

2013-05-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 1 May 2013 10:14:02 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:25:40 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or > > something similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control. The > > testsuite is a huge time-suck and onl