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* Separating test inputs?
@ 2024-01-02  5:31 Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
  2024-01-02  7:40 ` Ricardo Wurmus
  2024-01-02  8:14 ` Saku Laesvuori
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. @ 2024-01-02  5:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hi,

A better test infrastructure in Guix would probably be good, but is not
ready yet. Would it make sense, however, to split out those inputs only
needed for testing?

Such a step would probably make bootstrapping new architectures a lot
easier. It would also reduce the dependency graph in Guix, since tests
are not needed to either build or use a package.

In Debian, test prerequisites are annotated awkwardly with <!nocheck> in
the build prerequisites. (I think Guix calls them native-inputs.) You
can see some of Debian's funny notations here [1] and here. [2]

This is a proposal for 'test-inputs'. Any thoughts?

Kind regards
Felix

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libm/libmouse-perl/control-2.5.10-1
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/l/lintian/control-2.116.3


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