On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Peter Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 Jun 2010 at 23:31 Xyne wrote: >> Incidentally, I remember that when I compiled it the package duplicated >> several other packages, e.g. maxima, because it includes other >> applications internally. Is there any way (yet) to make it use other >> packages instead? If not, does it fully provide any other packages? > > Yes, this is exactly what I was trying to describe in my previous post - > thanks > for stating it clearer than me. And I think your suggestions are what is > needed. >
I took a longer look at their build/install system, and it doesn't look like it is very flexible in using external packages. It fully provides http://www.sagemath.org/packages/standard/ by default. These packages are optional http://www.sagemath.org/packages/optional/ which you would have to install after installing sage-mathematics afaik. Also, another optional package is in http://www.sagemath.org/sagedb/ which is basically a database that's worth a 2.6GB download :/ I have contacted upstream in case there is a relatively sane way of using external packages that come with the distro. I will post back if upstream says it's possible, but it looks like it won't be possible. >> * The idea of an "arch-science" team comes to mind, similar to the >> "arch-haskell" team, which has done great work in making Arch useful >> for Haskell users, but I don't actually have any concrete ideas of >> what that would entail. > > I'd be interested in helping out with this :-) > > Pete. > I would also be interested. :) Thomas Dziedzic
