On 2012-01-11 08:53, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Le 10/01/2012 23:26, Jeroen Demeyer a écrit :
>> On 2012-01-10 23:25, Julien Puydt wrote:
>>> Would sage maintainers accept a patch to bzip2's spkg adding the
>>> following to spkg-install : "if there's already a bzip2 on the system
>>> then don't compile&install a new one"?
>> I see absolutely no reason for doing this, apart from saving a little
>> bit of time and diskspace. So the small disadvantage of being less
>> predictable and more prone to breakage (without the Sage bzip2)
>> outweighs the epsilon time/space advantage.
>
> Ah, yes, bzip2 is small and compiles "fast".
>
> Ah, yes, patch is small and compiles "fast".
>
> Ah, yes...
>
>
>
> \mathbb{R} is archimedean.
True, but we're talking a different order of magnitude here. Speeding
up the atlas installation by just 5% would save more time than removing
both bzip2 and patch.
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