> If the value of a feature option is set to auto, that value is overridden by the global auto_features option (which defaults to auto). This is intended to be used by packagers who want to have full control on which dependencies are required and which are disabled, and not rely on build-deps being installed (at the right version) to get a feature enabled. They could set auto_features=enabled to enable all features and disable explicitly only the few they don't want, if any. > This type is available since version 0.47.0 I think it would be useful to make use of it in the eclass, maybe as a warning when unset for current EAPIs and set to -Dauto_features=enabled by default for next EAPIs. This way it would avoid breaking ebuilds (ie. for libsoup this would hard-require autobahn and quart for tests, latter being absent from gentoo repo).
Yeah, I think being explicit is generally a good idea, especially as it guards us against changing defaults in both directions.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=8b1853847b46f9b314edb026b9e692f9b3787415 commit 8b1853847b46f9b314edb026b9e692f9b3787415 Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me> AuthorDate: 2022-09-13 19:40:17 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-09-19 14:31:58 +0000 net-libs/libsoup: Fix automagic test dependencies Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/870019 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27241 Signed-off-by: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> net-libs/libsoup/libsoup-2.74.3.ebuild | 3 +++ net-libs/libsoup/libsoup-3.4.2.ebuild | 4 ++++ net-libs/libsoup/libsoup-3.4.3.ebuild | 4 ++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
