Hi all, I've just been looking into packaging gmsh for Gentoo, and noticed a few oddities around the build which I thought I'd share with you.
First off, I see that gmsh has lots of stuff bundled in ./contrib/. While that's handy for the one-shot user, package maintainers are usually somewhat skeptical about that. Reason for this include the fact that the bundled libraries are libraries in their own right, and may as well be installed on the system independently. Making use of system libraries avoids having libraries installed several times on one system, avoid the license mix-up, avoid falling behind on releases of bundled libraries. METIS alone is used by so many packages; why not make gmsh depend on it too? What's your view on this? Cheers, Nico _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list [email protected] http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
