On 04/21/2014 01:32 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> writes:
> 
>> Or we can set it to /dev/null and let users who want to run network
>> tests override it. And you can always mock the network side of the tramp
>> tests, which today are pretty slow even when they run properly.
> 
> I really appreciate that the tests run on hydra permanently. It is a
> different environment, and I see Tramp problems there which do not
> happen in my local environment.

Then configure *those* tests to talk to the network. You shouldn't
inconvenience ever person who runs "make check" (some of whom won't even
have an ssh daemon) because you want to get results from Hydra.