Hi Yaroslav, On 14-10-14 14:40, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, Michael Banck wrote: > >>> Or should I point out how to "compile your own", like it is done in the >>> "Building an optimized OpenBLAS packages on your architecture" in the >>> README.Debian file of openblas-base? > >> Not sure what's in those files, but I suggest to support >> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=custom in your Debian packaging, which would build an >> optimized package for a the user. That's what the ATLAS package are >> (were?) doing, and if we have enough packages like that, doing the m-a >> like tool as mentioned above would be a matter of knowing which packages >> do support it. > > +1 BUT from a user perspective it would have been much more > convenient if there was e.g. 'atlas-custom-installer' package which > would do that automagically at the package installation time. I agree. That would be easiest for the user/sysadmin. > With > 'build yourself' approach necessary manual interaction is also inferior > for delivering urgent functionality or security updates, since there > would be no automatic update. > > You might also look at matlab-support-dev package and its rdepends > -- since Matlab is not distributable, with this package we help to > automate building of the Matlab extensions at the installation time, > using "registered" within matlab-support alternatives instance of > user-installed Matlab. So far seemed to work quite neat. Thanks for the pointer. I'll have a look! Lennart. > > Cheers, > -- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* L.C. Karssen Utrecht The Netherlands lennart@karssen.org http://blog.karssen.org GPG key ID: A88F554A -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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