On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Barry Smith <bsmith@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

In the past we've been not particularly supportive of getting PETSc in Linux package systems, in fact we've been a bit antagonistic. We should change this.

I have the same objection as before, namely that many of our users want extra packages. Moreover,

even the ones that start with a plain vanilla installation often want to add packages later.

Thus, I could see us being distributed by a package manager IF we retained the ability to reconfigure

and rebuild. I would like the packaged version to retain all the configure stuff and ARCH directory so

that a user can call the reconfigure script with extra arguments and rebuild the package themselves.

Thanks,

Matt

Barry

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