On Sunday 21 August 2005 17:31, Darren Dale wrote:

> If you install lapack-atlas and blas-atlas, and link scipy to the blas and
> lapack libraries but not the atlas libraries, do you still get the enhanced
> performance from atlas? (This isn't a rhetorical question, I'm still
> learning.)

Yes, that's the whole idea. The names 'lapack' and 'blas' are just symlinks to 
whatever library implements them, like the reference libraries, or ATLAS, or 
perhaps at a later stage MKL.

> On a related topic, I noticed that sci-libs/atlas is still being developed,
> isn't it deprecated? This ebuild installs its libraries in /usr/lib,
> instead of somewhere unique and providing symlinks in /usr/lib.

In the stable tree sci-libs/atlas is the only atlas package available. 
lapack-atlas is currently still masked, but the idea is to perform the 
transition soon and phase out sci-libs/atlas.

Peter