On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote: > Hi > > > On 29 February 2012 22:21, Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net> wrote: >> >> If it only built what it *needs to build*, not what it *needs*, then >> there would be a gain too. Let me stress again : I have some of the >> things it needs already, so it could just use it. >> > > I was under the impression... > > Building Sage Just Works because it insists on such tightly coupled versions > of its components. This is why the debianization of Sage was such a hard > project. It is probably a good (very very long) long term goal though.
The fact that the "debianization" of Sage happened and was a failure may be relevant. > That is why I want to not-debianize sage, but to make a from-source version > of Sage in a PPA for Ubuntu, containing all the Sage-sanctioned components. This is an excellent idea. I very, very strongly support it. -- William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
