On 2016-04-16 16:19, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
It gets us one step closer to a Sage that will use what's already installed on the system.
No, it does not do that. It's just a different way of installing packages.
It will also make the Sage tarballs smaller
I don't think that "small tarballs" is a goal of Sage. On the other hand, I do think that "tarballs containing all needed sources" is a goal of Sage.
make dependency upgrades easier
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