On 06/02/2010 11:13 PM, Stephen Langer wrote: > On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:35 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >> Its just a little annoying that a package like atlas, which is a >> dependency of a dependency.... drags in a big build like gcc when I >> have no other reason for it... I understand that some packages may >> need a newer compiler than the standard OSX ones, but it would be >> nice if they could agree on which one ;) > > I was wondering why anything depends on atlas at all. Is atlas > noticeably better than the lapack and blas routines in the Accelerate > framework? I couldn't find any comparisons on-line.
Yep, that's something I suggested some weeks ago, too [1]. I am sure there are valid reasons to use our own atlas, but I don't know them. Rainer [1] http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2010-April/011682.html _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
