I'm also not able to find the documentation of the best way to install 
optional packages.
It would be nice to know all the steps to install each specific package. I 
assume that the steps are not the same for all optional packages since some 
of them are pip installable and others are not.

Thanks,
David.
On Friday, July 12, 2024 at 6:31:54 PM UTC+2 enriqu...@gmail.com wrote:

> Thanks. Is it documented somewhere?
>
> El viernes, 12 de julio de 2024 a las 15:01:19 UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik 
> escribió:
>
>> Yes, this is a recent change.
>> It's time to retire "sage -i".
>>
>> Dima
>>
>>
>> On 12 July 2024 07:03:19 BST, "enriqu...@gmail.com" <enriqu...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am not sure if the subject reflects exactly what I mean but I have 
>>> just seen a change of behavior. It is maybe intended but I do not see it 
>>> reflected in the documentation or I did not know how to look for it.
>>> I use quite often the optional package sirocco. It was installed in my 
>>> develop branch at worked flawlessly. I needed to make some computations 
>>> yesterday and the system failed to find some packages in sage.libs.
>>> I tried to uninstall and reinstall, even make distclean without success; 
>>> installing with sage -i sirocco or make sirocco did not work (it installed 
>>> it but libs were not found). 
>>> The solution was to apply first ./configure --enable-sagemath_sirocco.
>>>
>>> Was it produced by some change? 
>>> In the same lines, make doc-pdf produced a couple of errors in a new 
>>> system concerning xindy and free_fonts. I will start probably a PR to put 
>>> the actual packages that work in Fedora. After installing them the error 
>>> persisted and it only disappeared after a ./configure. Maybe this hint in 
>>> the logs of somewhere in the documentation would help.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Enrique.
>>>
>>>

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