[petsc-dev] broken builds

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:47, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> This model ONLY works if you control all the packages. We don't.


We could still keep track of what WE installed and provide uninstall. Yes,
if the user upgrades their ParMetis and after we did --download-mumps, then
we won't know whether there was a breaking ABI change requiring us to
recompile or relink (unless they change the soname --- which they "should"
do). Our --with-package-dir could also log the version number, which
packages should also provide.
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