On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 22:07, Barry Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

Why do you care if there are dependencies? Admittedly that may make PETSc harder to develop and maintain

Exactly.

but from the user point of view what is wrong with just having one big-assed blob?

It doesn't matter for users. (But a circular dependency would make executables grow so its existence might matter to someone using only Mat+Vec in an extremely low-memory environment.)