[petsc-dev] Sean is going to love this

[Jed Brown]

Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> writes:
> The only way to do this, in my experience, is if the package manager has
> something like 'variants' (macports and homebrew have it, at least, I
> don't know about others):
>
> port install petsc +superlu +mumps +mpich +hdf5 +hypre ... etc.

I think variants are a crutch for poor plugin support.  I would prefer
for PETSc to offer these as plugins that can be built and distributed
separately.  Then one can install petsc-superlu, petsc-mumps, etc.
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