[Pkg-octave-devel] The future of Atlas

[lukshuntim at gmail.com]

On 06/17/2012 04:24 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> lukshuntim at gmail.com writes:
> 
>> Would that mean libblas, liblapack, libblas-dev, liblapack-dev are now
>> all virtual packages? That would be great!
> 
> They already provide virtual packages (libblas.so.3gf /
> liblapack.so.3gf), and they already make use of the alternatives
> system. Nothing now on that side.
> 
> Best,
> 

Hi Sébastien,

Yes, that's true for the .so libraries. However, it's not so for the dev
packages. For example, currently libblas-dev (which liboctave-dev
depends on) is not virtual but comes from the (basic) blas package.

I guess some of the conflicts/bugs mentioned in this thread are due to
different applications build-depending on different dev blas packages.
If they are API compatible with the netlib blas (which I don't know
whether it's true or not), a virtual dev package should be possible.

Thanks for the hard work done. :-)
ST
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