On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 01:47:23PM +0100, Erik Bray wrote:
[...]
> I don't understand the issue here--if a package is a dependency of
> Sage then it will be built, right?  This only seems to apply to
> optional packages.

Yes. As far as i am concerned, optional packages are a very important part
of Sage, and they cause a nontrivial part of building issues for SDL
(precisely because they are barely tested on 32bit systems).

[...]
> Ah, well that's where my improved package uninstallation system comes
> in:  https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22510
> 
> This actually works very well in my testing so far, but getting the
> functionality merged is taking some time as there are some difficult
> prerequisites (e.g. https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/22509).

Great initiative!

Ciao,
Thierry

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