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using "-pc_type_hypre" in ~/.petscrc is a bad practice. [it makes<br>
sense only for global options that are useful for multiple petsc<br>
applications - like -malloc_dump]<br>
<br></blockquote><div> </div>The problem is that users pass rc files around, scp, mail, whatever, and they put it their home directory temporarily and leave it there.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">It is just very error prone and the error is really hard to figure out. Many computational scientists would not cut is Linux developers but PETSc has to deal with them (eg, me!). My users just don't want to know much about PETSc, which makes it worse -- the users don't know much about PETSc but they have to deal with the rc interface.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br></div></div></div>