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

Anton Gladky gladk at debian.org
Sun Dec 1 13:11:43 UTC 2013


Ok, good opinions. Thanks, guys.

I will add it.

Anton


2013/12/1 Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org>

> Le dimanche 01 décembre 2013 à 13:52 +0100, Anton Gladky a écrit :
>
> > 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.
>
> If MPReal is an optional functionality on Eigen3, I think a Suggests on
> libmpfrc++-dev, or maybe even a Recommends, would make much sense.
>
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