Bug 372563

Summary:	dev-libs/glib-2.28.6 always requires x11-base/xorg-server[xvfb] when FEATURES=test
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Luca Lesinigo <luckyluke>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor	CC:	x11
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Luca Lesinigo 2011-06-22 10:26:10 UTC

Trying to emerge dev-libs/glib-2.28.6 with tests enabled requires xorg-server[xvfb].

This makes it impossible to emerge with xorg-server[-xvfb] or, specially, on a system without X11. I don't know if this should really be considered an issue, but I like to run some of my test/devel box with FEATURES=test but some of them are headless remote systems without X11 installed and I find it annoying having to install some 51 new packages just to run the test suite of glib.

If it is considered standard behavior to require Xorg[xvfb] to run glib's test suite, then please close this bug.

If someone thinks it could be a good idea to run tests without Xorg, it should be handled in the ebuild, possibly disabling some of the tests where X11 is actually required.

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-06-22 12:02:47 UTC

We need Xmake for running tests as explained in ebuild and, then, this dependency is inheritted from virtualx.eclass