Hi, having the possibility to install all optional packages is interesting for easy deployment as well as for testing (we need more automated tests of all optional packages, in particular more patchbots with optional packages installed). Currently, some optional packages, like gmp/mpir, atlas/openblas, boost/boost_cropped (what else ?) are alternatives to some existing standard packages. Hence, those should not be installed when we want to set up a patchbot to test optional packages (unless we want to specifically test those). There is also the special case of openssl, which should not be installed when openssl-dev is present on the system.
I would like to suggest to have such replacement/duplicate/redundent/alternative/... packages be tagged not as 'optional' but with another word, so as to ease the selection and installation of all optional packages, in order to easily provide some kind of "sage-full" binaries and patchbots. I currently use a hand-made list of optional packages for Sage Debian Live but it requires to be updated at each release. - What do you think about distinguish such packages to optional ones ? - Which name should be given to such packages ? - What are your current strategies to install all meaningful optional packages ? Ciao, Thierry -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
