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[Faheem Mitha <faheem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Anders Logg wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:02:53AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> As I understand it, Debhelper is only a requirement for you to build
> the DOLFIN package, not for a user who installs it so it should not be
> a requirement. Right?

It is not a Depends (runtime) but is a BuildDepend (build time), which is 
quite common.

> > Ok. I'll hold off on packaging FFC and FIAT till later.
>
> Should be very easy to package. The only thing that needs to happen is
> a to copy a bunch of .py files to
>
>    /usr/lib/python-<version>/site-packages/<name>
>
> which is what happens when you run
>
>    python setup.py install
>
> in FFC or FIAT (Python standard correpsonding to ./configure + make).
>
> But this can wait.

I'll take a look at it when I have a chance. I think Debian Python policy 
expects certain things, so it will not be quite so trivial.

> > libpetsc is too big. Please suggest how its size could be reduced. Also,
> > do you have any suggestions on how the runtime and dev libraries could be
> > split up?
>
> Seems to be difficult to get around:
>
> galerkin:/usr/local/lib/petsc> ls -lh lib/linux-gnu/
> totalt 157M
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  56K 2005-07-04 06:06 libmpiuni.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  33M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetsc.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  11M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetscdm.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  38M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetscfortran.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  20M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetscksp.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  38M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetscmat.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 5,3M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetscsnes.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 3,1M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetscts.a
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  11M 2005-07-04 06:06 libpetscvec.a

Hmm. The library files in my PETSc package aren't quite that big. Maybe 
because they are stripped? In any case, we can split the library files up 
into subpackages, which will help.

I wonder how Powell managed. Should look at his package.

                                                              Faheem.