A much more meaningful design, and an obvious improvement, would be to have a (say) sagemath-smallcore, where, say, 70% of sagelib functionality is, with the remaining parts based off this sagemath-smallcore.
I agree. This sounds more reasonable to me. I could also imagine to have three layers: * a core distribution with absolutely minimal dependencies and only dependencies which have proved stable on all supported platforms * a distribution, or possibly even a few distributions, which exclude some possibly difficult dependencies * all of sagemath Martin -- 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/b41961c9-60c6-4ead-a459-b6c8586e02cfn%40googlegroups.com.