[R-sig-Debian] stock ubuntu raring binary R 3.0.1 and accelerated blas libraries?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 June 2013 at 20:34, ivo welch wrote:
| ok, then let me rephrase: would it make sense to make atlas a higher
| priority than default blas, even if it has been like this for over a

That would be a Debian-wide decision affecting _a lot_ of stake holders.  You
could start by asking the maintainer of the atlas package... 

| decade?  having atlas as a depend that is overridden is pretty close
| to not having a depend on atlas, at all.

The 'default | better' formulation is standard among such 'virtual'
packages. It among other things allows you to remove the default package.

Just make it a habit to install Atlas (or OpenBLAS) along with R. 

Dirk

 
| /iaw
| 
| On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
| >
| > It is a suggested option, but with a lower priority than the default
| > reference blas.  And it's been like that for over a decade.
| >
| > Dirk
| >
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| > Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com

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