[Debian-science-sagemath] cysignals vs pari [WAS: pari-sage or pari ?]

Sun Aug 21 12:54:00 UTC 2016

On 2016-08-21 14:36, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I have just checked the configure.ac as distributed in the upstream source ball
> and as currently available in the github repository: PARI does NOT look to be optional.

It is supposed to be optional. If it's not optional, that's a bug in 
cysignals.

> Assuming that an option can be introduced, does it make sense to provide
> a Debian package without PARI support and with PARI support ?

I have no idea about Debian. Something like a Gentoo USE flag would make 
sense. At least it should be impossible to install both versions 
together, that could lead to conflicts.

Jeroen.