On Sunday 21 August 2005 15:22, Darren Dale wrote:

> I use numeric and scipy, and have been trying for a long time to improve
> the ebuilds to use blas/lapack/atlas. I submitted an ebuild for numeric six
> months ago (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81520), but it has
> languished in buzilla because it is not clear how to deal with ATLAS (my
> atlas USE flag was rejected). How should ATLAS dependencies be handled in
> the new infrastructure?

In theory it's as simple as depending on virtual/blas and virtual/lapack. The 
user can then switch between different lapack and blas implementations at 
runtime with blas-config and lapack-config.

Cheers,

Peter