Re: [gentoo-science] blas/lapack status

[Markus Dittrich]

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Hi Sebastien,

Thank you for bringing this up and I apologize for the
somewhat delayed reply. Below are some of my thoughts/comments.

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Sebastien Fabbro wrote:
> * Should we really keep those obsolete packages:
>   - sci-libs/atlas: now decomposed as sci-libs/blas-atlas and
> sci-libs/lapack-atlas
>   - sci-libs/blas: redundant with sci-libs/blas-reference
>   - sci-libs/lapack: redundant with sci-libs/lapack-reference

Personally, I have been happily using blas-atlas for 
a while now and would be ok with removing them if nothing
in the tree depends on them directly. Some of the other 
devs might have a different opinion, though.

>
> * cblas/clapack: as mentioned in a previous post, at least a
> virtual/cblas could help (as well as a cblas-reference) ebuild.
>

As pointed out by Adam, a cblas-reference ebuild should hit
portage shortly. Before we start pondering the virtual/cblas
more (I am in principle for it) could we identify all the packages 
that can provide it as well as all the ones that can depend on and
benefit from it? 

> * documentation: shouldn't blas/lapack install man pages and quick
> references as well as in Fedora (or may be an app-docs/lapack)?
>

USE="doc" with blas-atlas installs the quick reference as well
as some other docs. No man pages though. Do you know where the
Fedora guys get them from? I don't see them in the tarballs,
but I might have missed them.

Thanks,
Markus


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Gentoo Linux Developer
Scientific applications
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