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authorDoron Behar <doron.behar@gmail.com>2020-04-26 14:53:06 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-04-26 11:53:06 +0000
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docs/python: document builders using doInstallCheck and not doCheck (#86051)
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@@ -1059,6 +1059,11 @@ let
 in newpkgs.inkscape
 ```
 
+If you'd like to disable tests for a particular Python based package built with
+`buildPythonPackage` or `buildPythonApplication`, you'd need to set
+`doInstallCheck = false` and not `doCheck = false` as the later will take no
+effect.
+
 ### `python setup.py bdist_wheel` cannot create .whl
 
 Executing `python setup.py bdist_wheel` in a `nix-shell `fails with