I agree that we should have some user configuration mechanism to customize how we build packages (including replacing sage packages with distro dependencies), but going about it by patching Sage or adding $DISTRO subdirectories everywhere are crap. Something like yaml config files (e.g. hashdist) is imho the way to go.
On Saturday, February 21, 2015 at 3:42:28 AM UTC+1, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > minutes. It makes installation much harder for users who are used to > doing "yum install sage" > $ yum info sagemath [...] Available Packages Name : sagemath Arch : i686 Version : 6.3 Release : 5.fc21 Size : 150 k Repo : updates/21/x86_64 Summary : A free open-source mathematics software system URL : http://www.sagemath.org License : ASL 2.0 and BSD and GPL+ and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and MIT and Public Domain Description : Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed : under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source : packages into a common Python-based interface. Name : sagemath Arch : x86_64 Version : 6.3 Release : 5.fc21 Size : 150 k Repo : updates/21/x86_64 Summary : A free open-source mathematics software system URL : http://www.sagemath.org License : ASL 2.0 and BSD and GPL+ and GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ and MIT and Public Domain Description : Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed : under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source : packages into a common Python-based interface. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
