On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Barry Smith <bsm...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
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>
> In the past we've been not particularly supportive of getting PETSc in
> Linux package systems, in fact we've been a bit antagonistic. We should
> change this.
I have the same objection as before, namely that many of our users want
extra packages. Moreover,
even the ones that start with a plain vanilla installation often want to
add packages later.
Thus, I could see us being distributed by a package manager IF we retained
the ability to reconfigure
and rebuild. I would like the packaged version to retain all the configure
stuff and ARCH directory so
that a user can call the reconfigure script with extra arguments and
rebuild the package themselves.
Thanks,
Matt
> Barry
>
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