On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 15:12 -0700, Matthias Koeppe wrote: > On Tuesday, April 26, 2022 at 2:07:40 PM UTC-7 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > On Tue, 2022-04-26 at 12:20 -0700, Matthias Koeppe wrote: > > > This makes no sense on any distribution other than build-from-source > > > distributions like gentoo. > > > > Homebrew, Conda, and sage itself are all source-based. > > > Of the three, only Sage is a source-based distribution. >
That's a stretch. By the same reasoning, Gentoo isn't source-based, because you have the option of installing pre-built binary packages with the default set of options. The need for source-based builds in this context is precisely when someone hasn't thought to make a binary package for your architecture/CPU/libc/whatever ahead of time. Regardless, there is also Nix, but sage itself should be reason enough to choose the better approach. Finally, upon reflection, I fail to see how this is an issue specific to source-based distributions. All four of the problems I listed also affect binary distributions, and the solution in Trac #30746 should work almost as well there. For example, installing "ffmpeg" on Debian would not automatically enable ffmpeg within sage, but installing "sage-ffmpeg" would add the pkg-config file and thereby enable it. That leaves problem (1) up to the maintainer -- whether or not he wants to add a dependency on sage-ffmpeg to sage itself -- but handily solves the other three. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/92ec09c759572a39626bd869395c9687723f2603.camel%40orlitzky.com.
