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[Ilmar Wilbers <ilmarw@xxxxxxxxx>]

> PETSc is not needed for DOLFIN. I would be inclined to not have DOLFIN 
> depend on petsc-dev. The Debian petsc package has historically not been 
> very up-to-date, plus a user will typically want a 'customised' version 
> of PETSc with particular external packages. Moreover, if the Debian 
> version of PETSc isn't built to use UMFPACK, then most of the DOLFIN 
> demos will be dead slow because the PETSc LU solver is not very good.
I agree, but updates were made for Hardy, and Johannes ported this to 
Gutsy, and it worked. For know, dolfin (Debian package) does not depend 
on petsc-dev. petsc-dev depends on libsuitesparse (umfpack).

Anyway, the solution discussed earlier seems to solve our problems.

ilmar