On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:52:57 +1300 François Bissey <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have yet another instance of someone emerging lapack-reference > without > a valid blas configuration in > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498490 > (not their original problem). > I think we should do something about this in lapack-reference and > possibly > other ebuilds. > In pkg_setup, we could run > eselect blas update > to make sure that a valid configuration is active > and display an informational message about the blas provider > used with the output of > eselect blas show > > Who thinks is a good/bad idea? > > Francois > For one, I'm in favor of something like this - though I probably don't have much say in the matter. I've been bitten by not eselecting {blas, cblas, lapack} after an upgrade. And I've even posted on this forum the problem. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/1915 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/1916 I resolved things, quite accidently, by re-eselecting the important components which were eselected before the upgrade. Steve
