[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#586149: Please consider the usage of update-alternatives for hdf5 libraries

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Package: hdf5
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

It would be nice if you could consider the usage of update-alternative
for the hdf5 libraries.
For now, it is not possible to have both hdf5 and hdf5-mpi packages on the
same system.
This would allow this and improves the switch between the various
implementations improvements.

I implemented this with success for linear algebra libraries:
http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2010/04/06/update_of_the_linear_algebra_libraries_i
If you agree, I could try to do that for you for hdf5.

Cheers,
Sylvestre



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