On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Dan wrote:
> Thanks Andrey. For some years, I have been using Maxima from ~x86 (but with
> the stable CLISP).
That's exactly the problem. clisp is the slowest lisp supporting maxima.
sbcl or cmucl or gcl would be much better, but they are in unstable (gcl
even masked).
Technically, it is impossible to stabilize any maxima ebuild currently in
the tree, because they depend on packages from unstable. In EAPI 5 there
will be a possibility to mask some USE flags for stable packages, while
still allowing to use them in ~arch. When EAPI 5 will hit the tree, it
will be possible to stabilize some recent maxima (by masking the best lisp
options!).
Andrey