Bug#815825: gerris-mpi conflicts with gfsview

[Stephane Popinet]

Package: gerris-mpi
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

gerris-mpi cannot currently be installed together with gfsview (because it
conflicts with the 'gerris' package which gfsview depends on). I believe that
this seriously affects the usability of the package because most users usually
want to both be able to run parallel jobs (i.e. use gerris-mpi) on their
multicore systems, and to visualise the results (using gfsview) on the same
system.

Actually, the simplest would be to only provide a single (MPI) version of
gerris rather than the current serial and MPI packages. Running the MPI version
on a single core should not affect performance compared to the serial version.

thanks again,

Stephane



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