From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Fakxh-0005MA-Fk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 May 2006 02:50:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k422mZTr002105; Tue, 2 May 2006 02:48:35 GMT Received: from web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k422mY21021166 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 02:48:34 GMT Received: (qmail 24144 invoked by uid 60001); 2 May 2006 02:48:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=CrjVoG8sk6fj6SC20E4yzksJrrkSdxg53nM3xOg041wGNKOxK09WFEvA/E4Oayf00xOXh3eaSG9ABOzMM9pojSSwdOZOU5k1YAptrCzfiX9hVtoNBJ/soQzmjrHLPyVhTVWd02ypggs17nFmk+ZAHLgGGdcRcWKAho6A0mDbfiI= ; Message-ID: <20060502024833.24142.qmail@web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [168.226.70.75] by web36501.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 01 May 2006 19:48:33 PDT Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 19:48:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Pablo De Napoli Subject: [gentoo-science] inconsistencies in blas/lapack/atlas support in portage To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-science@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 2b614f14-49b0-4ddd-8919-4c1a932c643d X-Archives-Hash: a1673c93f2d4c2f1089cd72ba9a4dfd7 I've just filled a bug #131974 concerning the incosistencies in the current support of blas/lapack/atlas in portage. I understand that this situation perhaps arises because we still have some obsolete packages in portage. He is my bug report (expressing my opinion on this issue): Opened: 2006-05-01 19:39 PST I think that blas/lapack/atlas support in portage has several inconsistencies. For example, there are three packages related to atlas sci-libs/atlas sci-libs/blas-atlas sci-libs/lapack-atlas However. sci-libs/atlas does not provide blas neither lapack. And if I emerge, blas-atlas and then lapack-atlas, I have to compile atlas twice!. This is quit frustrating, since Atlas takes a lot of time to compile. The most reasonable thing would be to have just one sci-libs/atlas package and that this package provides both virtual/blas and virtual/lapack. Another inconsistency is that we have both sci-libs/blas and sci-libs/blas-reference in portage. blas reference provides virtual/blas but blas does not! So I emerge blas, and it does not provide blas! (what seems rather absurd to me) (and what it is worst, the strange behavior of all this packages seems not to be documented anywhere) best regards Pablo De Napoli __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-science@gentoo.org mailing list