<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 22:46, Barry Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bsmith@mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank">bsmith@mcs.anl.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If it is a different algorithm the software needs to be different, isn't that self-evident?</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>As a related matter, Umfpack has an optional dependency on Cholmod which is almost all of SuiteSparse. I never implemented --download-cholmod because it's more difficult to install than building all of SuiteSparse. Would it be reasonable for the --download stuff to always build all of SuiteSparse? We can still support linking to the user-provided umfpack/cholmod/amd independently from all of SuiteSparse.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Matt, how would you implement meta-packages in BuildSystem?</div>