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["Garth N. Wells" <gnw20@xxxxxxxxx>]

Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Fri, August 1, 2008 13:09, Kent-Andre Mardal wrote:
> > On fr., 2008-08-01 at 12:20 +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> > > On Fri, August 1, 2008 12:17, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > > Johannes Ring wrote:
> > > > > Hi Jiping,
> > > > >
> > > > > I think this segfault problem must have been introduced when I added
> > > > > Trilinos as a dependency to the DOLFIN Ubuntu packages.
> > > > Why do we have Trilinos as a dependency for the package? I don't see
> > > > what this adds for the user at this stage.
> > > Well, if it doesn't add anything to the user, I can simply remove it.
> > >
> > > Johannes
> > Agree that dolfin should not depend on trilinos. Does the dolfin package
> > depend on PETSc ?
>
> Yes, it depends on PETSc.
>
> > More general, should the dolfin package be minimalistic or
> > maximalistic ?
>
> I thought maximalistic, but I guess this is up to others to decide.

I would say maximalistic in terms of available Ubuntu packages (e.g. 
OpenMPI, PETSc, umfpack, etc), and minimalistic in terms of home-made 
packages (e.g. Trilinos).

On this note, SCOTCH is package under Ubuntu 8.10.

Garth

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