Bug 462114

Summary:	"test" missing in IUSE of several packages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Roman Žilka <roman.zilka>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Roman Žilka 2013-03-17 23:21:15 UTC

I thought I'd use 'equery hasuse test' to find all packages that have a test phase, but $SUMMARY.

dev-lang/python
dev-util/dejagnu
sys-apps/coreutils
sys-apps/grep
sys-apps/sandbox
sys-apps/sed
sys-apps/texinfo
sys-devel/autoconf
sys-devel/automake
sys-process/procps

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-19 13:10:35 UTC

If there is no need for IUSE=test, then it should not be set. One particular use case would be to set test dependencies (DEPEND="... test? ( cat/pkg )") but I don't see how this would apply in the packages you pointed out. Having a test phase does not mean IUSE=test should be set.

Comment 2 Roman Žilka 2013-03-19 15:10:08 UTC

Please suggest a means of finding all packages that have a test phase.

Comment 3 Roman Žilka 2013-03-20 11:13:42 UTC

Moreover, the current state of things is confusing: a lot of packages have IUSE=test. That might intuitively suggest something to the users: when a package has a test phase, it exports the "test" IUSE. They might make decisions based on that. But misleadingly, this turns out to be false.

If "test" should not exist as a IUSE, please, remove it from all packages that do export it. And there are many, because the situation of "test" missing in IUSE has been considered an actual bug in the past and fixed as such repeatedly.

Comment 4 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-03-20 15:49:34 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please suggest a means of finding all packages that have a test phase.

`grep --include='*.ebuild' --include='*.eclass' -r src_test /usr/portage`

(In reply to comment #3)
> Moreover, the current state of things is confusing: a lot of packages have
> IUSE=test. That might intuitively suggest something to the users: when a
> package has a test phase, it exports the "test" IUSE. They might make
> decisions based on that. But misleadingly, this turns out to be false.
> 
> If "test" should not exist as a IUSE, please, remove it from all packages
> that do export it. And there are many, because the situation of "test"
> missing in IUSE has been considered an actual bug in the past and fixed as
> such repeatedly.

If a reasonable problem, please file such things against individual maintainers.