Re: [Libmesh-devel] OpenHPC

[Julian A. <ju...@tf...>]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Roy Stogner <roy...@ic...> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Julian Andrej wrote:
>
>> Isn't libmesh a component which is heavily dependent on the users
>> needs? So a "one size fits all" RPM is a bit off.
>
>
> For most of our configuration options, the relevant users' needs are
> "I need to not spend a lot of time hunting down and reading about and
> configuring and building a dozen other packages first".  This need is
> already satisfied, even with a fully-featured libMesh, if "yum install
> libMesh" automatically installs all those features' dependencies too.
>
> We'll want "two sizes fit all", IMHO - "libmesh" and
> "libmesh-complex".

I agree with that after thinking once more about the "general user".

>
> (that said, Spack looks cool)
> ---
> Roy



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