> On Feb 26, 2018, at 12:58 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 February 2018 at 20:11, Smith, Barry F. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Lisandro, >> >> I don't understand this. Are you saying that the PETSc installer installs >> a bunch of files it shouldn't so you strip them out >> after the install is run? >> > > Indeed. > >> The PETSc installer is a nice flexible piece of python code. I don't >> understand why you people who understand which files >> shouldn't be installed don't just edit the installer to prevent it from >> installing things it shouldn't instead of writing ad hoc post-install >> cleanup scripts. Why is "fixing" the installer so difficult that you guys >> just leave it in a broken state for years? (The reason I don't "fix" it >> is that I don't know what needs to be fixed since I don't interact with the >> package managers. >> > > Well, maybe just because I don't know how to properly "fix" it?
Were it written in 3 lines of Gnumake I'm sure you could have fixed it easily ;-) > > > -- > Lisandro Dalcin > ============ > Research Scientist > Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering (CEMSE) > Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) > King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) > http://ecrc.kaust.edu.sa/ > > 4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology > al-Khawarizmi Bldg (Bldg 1), Office # 0109 > Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia > http://www.kaust.edu.sa > > Office Phone: +966 12 808-0459
