[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#578052: [atlas] providing >20 separate optimized library packages is insane

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Sat Apr 24 19:04:44 UTC 2010


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 02:45:09PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > thanks alot for the effort you put in packaging the several optimized 
> > versions of the atlas libraries, BUT I consider it completely 
> > unnecessary to put them all into separate packages and leave it up to 
> > the user to manually select the one optimized for his system.
> Well, some people do not agree on this.
> I think it is important to let the user select the appropriate
> optimisation for his computer. 

I hop in here. 

I think there are several problems with the current approach:
1) How should ATLAS rdependencies handle this gigantic number of
packages? Put them all into Recommends? I have some sympathy for a big
all-in-one package (hey, it would make my life easier :) )

2) Ability to debug: 
Current atlas ftbfs on amd64 (build.debian.org is down, so no link. It
failed at the end, though). So, I wanted to have a look at it, but
according to the (non-linked) log, the build took almost 6 hours. This
is beyond anything one can reasonably wait for.

So, my personal preference would be:
Less stuff as a whole to reduce the build time and ideally just one
package (although a pure-dependency package pulling in everything else
would be fine as well).

Thanks
	Thomas






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