Re: Bits about Intel MKL packaging -- Higher Priority than OpenBLAS

I agree with Lumin here and not Seb -- if and when one adds MKL, it should also be higher priority. That is the point of such a package (which will likely linger in contrib or non-free anyway). FWIW rather recently I put together a simpler script (not a package). Blog post here:

Bits about Intel MKL packaging -- Higher Priority than OpenBLAS

Hi Debian Science Team, The main purpose for me to write this mail is to notify you guys that I'm going to assign MKL a higher priority than OpenBLAS via the update-alternative mechanism. MKL provides alternatives to e.g. libblas.so.3

Re: Bits about Intel MKL packaging -- Higher Priority than OpenBLAS

Dear Lumin, On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 04:24:43PM +, Lumin wrote: > The main purpose for me to write this mail is to notify > you guys that I'm going to assign MKL a higher priority > than OpenBLAS via the update-alternative mechanism. > > MKL provides alternatives to e.g. libblas.so.3 >