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 in newpkgs.inkscape
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-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