On 5/6/07, Vadim V. Zhytnikov <vvzhy at mail.ru> wrote:
> I strongly dislike current situation.
Well, I'm certainly not happy about it either.
> > The only drawback I see is that would increase the size of the
> > binary package by some megabytes.
>
> Is it really a lot? These files can be packaged in separate .rpm
> and .deb subpackage and or as an extra option in Windows Installer.
> I suggest to introduce extra configure option which will control
> whether lapack will be compiled or not.
The main problem, I think, is that a lot of people are still using
dialups, so just to obtain the package is a problem even if there
is plenty of room on the disk. A separate rpm or installer helps
somewhat by reducing the size of the largest blob that needs to
be downloaded.
best
Robert