Trilinos packages

Nico Schlömer nico.schloemer at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 11:27:40 UTC 2014


> my recommendation is to disable parmetis in trilinos and defer the
> problem until anybody actually requires it.

Sure, why not.

> how many (license) problems are left without parmetis?

Not sure. If you build without parmetis (remove the dependency from
debian/control and debian/rules), does the builder still complain?

--Nico


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Felix Salfelder <felix at salfelder.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:33:26AM +0100, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>> Are there general Debian guidelines for such situations?
>
> i'm sorry i don't know or care. i'm not even sure in which way non-free
> is (not) a part of debian.
>
>> What's your opinion on this?
>
> imo it's best to avoid trouble (here: non-free packages).
>
> my recommendation is to disable parmetis in trilinos and defer the
> problem until anybody actually requires it. if that is you, hopefully
> somebody else will step in and help.
>
> how many (license) problems are left without parmetis?
>
> regards
> felix



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