People who are in the know and want those extra tests will know how to set up the environment before running CPAN/CPANP in order to get them.
I would argue the counterpoint. The tests should run by default, and for those people to whom an additional 15 seconds is too much, they can set the environment variable. The only reason I could see to skip the test is in a development phase when you're running your test suite after every minor change. You'd still want to run the entire suite before commiting the change, though.

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In reply to Re^2: Time consuming tests by thor
in thread Time consuming tests by jplindstrom

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