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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: gentoo-science@l.g.o, Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] RFC: Introducing ldso switching to BLAS/LAPACK
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:52:43
Message-Id: CAJ0EP42Dc12MQnj1v8bmTujvQU72FKDS3dU6zGbP56+FQKpUpA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 0/2] RFC: Introducing ldso switching to BLAS/LAPACK by heroxbd@gentoo.org
1 On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:16 AM <heroxbd@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > From: Benda Xu <heroxbd@g.o>
4 >
5 > The following 2 patches are to introduce the runtime switching
6 > mechanism to BLAS/LAPACK libraries in Gentoo.
7 >
8 > This feature is turned off by default and only the reference
9 > BLAS/LAPACK is used to satisfy the dependencies. It can be enabled by
10 > USE=eselect-ldso.
11 >
12 >
13 > Sorry for the glitch to the tree caused by my mistake yesterday. I am
14 > looking forward to your review. I am cross posting to -dev and -sci
15 > so as to attract atention from all interested parties.
16
17 This looks a lot safer than yesterday's patch since there are no
18 ebuild removals here.
19
20 If/when you do want to remove old ebuilds, I suggest creating a github
21 PR, and let the CI bot check reverse dependencies. This was actually
22 done for the change that was reverted yesterday, but it seems like the
23 CI results were ignored and the commit was pushed regardless.

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