[petsc-dev] broken builds

[Jed Brown]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 16:12, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is exactly my point. The manpower is in having individual package
> maintainers, which is what we would need and not have.
>

No, those people are not experts. It needs to be really easy for them,
otherwise they wouldn't bother contributing. DESTDIR is not the problem
you're making it out to be. It's orthogonal to the hard stuff, but if you
use the DESTDIR, you can uninstall packages (or safely update without
deleting everything).


>
>
>> Sandboxing the compile/install or setting system permissions (e.g. via
>> fakeroot) would be harder for PETSc to do (because it's different on
>> different systems).
>>
>
> Yes, nightmare.


My point, and we don't try to solve this problem.
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