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From: "Andrey G. Grozin" <A.G.Grozin@×××××××.su>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] freemat-2.0 at gentooscience.org
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:35:50
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0608281626050.13765@star.inp.nsk.su
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] freemat-2.0 at gentooscience.org by "Honza Macháček"
1 On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Honza Mach??ek wrote:
2 > Not experimenting with the ebuilds, just out of curiosity I've
3 > downloaded FreeMat-2.0 sources from its page. After unpacking them I
4 > have FreeMat-2.0/extern/Packages directory containing seamingly all the
5 > dependencies for the package. There is matio.zip of 1.1.6 version there.
6 Why don't you make the next logical step and include sources of glibc?
7 Shouls every package include sources of each library it uses? How many
8 copies of each library, of different versions, in different directories,
9 I'll have? Some other packages use arpack and umfpack, why FreeMat should
10 have its own versions of them?
11
12 This goes against modularity, *the* fundamental principle of any good
13 Linux distribution.
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15 Also, the default build of FreeMat-2.0 is absolutely incompatible with the
16 FHS standard.
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18 The specific question about building FreeMat-2.0 with matio-1.3.0 is,
19 probably, not too difficult. I'll have a look today in the evening, and
20 (if I'll succeed) I'll put the necessary changes to gentooscience.org.
21
22 Andrey
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