Bug#731050: libeigen3-dev: depends on mpfrc++

Sylvestre Ledru sylvestre at debian.org
Sun Dec 1 12:59:49 UTC 2013


On 01/12/2013 13:52, Anton Gladky wrote:
> Hi Jerome,
>
> thanks for bug-report. But I do not think, it is a good idea to add 
> some more dependencies to header-only library. 
>
> In most of cases it is enough to use only libeigen3-dev. But if
> the software uses some additional headers through Eigen3 (like
> MPReal, for example), the maintainer should add it explicitly 
> to his dependecy-list.
>
Declaring mpfrc++ as recommends might be a good compromise. Don't you
think ?

Sylvestre


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