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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: DNF vs YUM, $pkg, $pkg-mpi, $pkg-openmpi having same provides
From:       Sandro Mani <manisandro () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-06-12 11:20:38
Message-ID: 557AC086.2070204 () gmail ! com
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On 11.06.2015 22:15, Susi Lehtola wrote:
> On 06/11/2015 09:01 AM, Sandro Mani wrote:
>> So, whose fault is this? Packaging of dnf? Nothing relevant for this
>> caught my eye skimming through the packaging guidelines.
>
> I think this is dnf's fault. YUm didn't have the same problem, since 
> if multiple packages provided the necessary library, yum installed the 
> one with the shortest name, so out of scotch and scotch-mpich it'd 
> install scotch.
>
>> And related: trying to install some $pkg-openmpi package, I don't
>> generally see packages enforcing that the -openmpi version of some
>> dependency library is installed as opposed to just the regular libs
>> package. Should such requires need to be stated explicitly?
>
> Yes, that's in the MPI guidelines. File bug reports on the packages.
How should one deal with a scenario like

gmsh: requires mmg3d
mmg3d: requires scotch

gmsh-openmpi: requires mmg3d
mmg3d: requires scotch -> but in this case it is actually 
ptscotch-openmpi which is desired, right?

Thanks,
Sandro

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