[gentoo-dev] virtuals

[George Shapovalov]

Hi guys.

So, I wanted to go ahead about adding virtual/blas, but apparently virtuals 
have changed quite a bit since I had to do this last time..

I remember the discussion about virtuals going hierarchial and I can see it in 
place (with base/virtuals having bunch of definitions and the bunch of arch 
specific stuff very little), but I can also see some of the profiles (releng 
related?) having what looks like a fuul list as well. Oh, and this page 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/policy.xml
is apparently outdated on this issue...

So, do I just add a virtual to base/virtuals and it gets picked up by releng 
team or do I have to add it to releng profiles as well (if yes, then to which 
ones)?

Oh, to answer some questions that would be sure to follow :),
yes, this has been discussed on this lists (look few month back - this puppy 
sure took some work), but to quicklu\y give an idea. BLAS is a Basic Computer 
Algebra System library and, naturally, there exist multiple implementatios. 
We in a sci team are working on making it possible to mix and match these 
implementations as you go (yea, scientists want weird stuff all the time :)) 
and adding a few more enhancements, but this will all be described in a 
separate email on the blas subsystem in gentoo shortly (after I get an answer 
naturally :)). Now I am only gonna refer anybody interested in details to 
#30453.

George


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