On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:23:45PM +1200, Francois Bissey wrote: > I'd like to note that on gentoo we only use things like > sage-singular-xxx as an exception - singular is a particularly good > example, since it was the last one we had years ago. Compared to debian > we have a little bit more freedom on the versions a user can install. > My own experience over the years is that singular and pari are possibly > the most problematic one followed by polybori (but it is improving > dramatically in that regard in the latest release), networkx and lately > ppl.
but i guess, you would switch to unprefixed versions, if they worked as well. > The biggest reason of doing sage-foo for everything is to use mpir > instead of gmp. sage-on-gentoo is using gmp as switching to mpir distro > wide would require agreement from the toolchain people. There are way of > giving people the choice but that involves changing every package > currently using gmp.... in debian one would probably postfix libraries linked against mpir instead of gmp with -mpir, like for example libmpfr-mpir, libmpfi-mpir or libpari-mpir. this is not difficult, does not require a distro-wide switch and is only indirectly related to sage. providing mpir versions is something we/debian should do after sage is packaged and working (and there is an indication to do so). regards felix -- 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 post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
