On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 09:31:50PM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote:
> >> That's a pitfall and numpy had ever fell into it: #913567
> >
> > The numpy issue is unrelated.
>
> My point is that the existence of atlas' libcblas.so is
> sometimes misguiding: when a package asks for a cblas
> library, the maintainer will first
>
> apt search libcblas
>
> and they will find nothing. Then they will
>
> apt-file search libcblas
>
> and find atlas and set it as the dependency.
>
> Maintainers without enough background on BLAS / LAPACK
> are likely to be misguided. And they don't necessarily
> know that Debian's default Atlas package (without
> tuning) is really slow.
I confirm I would trap into this pitfall since you are perfectly
right about my searching strategy. I'd be super happy if there
would be a safe way around this trap.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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