Trilinos packages

Nico Schlömer nico.schloemer at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 12:51:24 UTC 2014


I checked all other dependencies manually and found that
libparmetis-dev was the only thing from non-free. I removed it from
the list; please retry building.

--Nico

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Nico Schlömer
<nico.schloemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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