Sean Farley <[email protected]> writes:

The only way to do this, in my experience, is if the package manager has something like 'variants' (macports and homebrew have it, at least, I don't know about others):

port install petsc +superlu +mumps +mpich +hdf5 +hypre ... etc.

I think variants are a crutch for poor plugin support. I would prefer for PETSc to offer these as plugins that can be built and distributed separately. Then one can install petsc-superlu, petsc-mumps, etc.