Re: [opensuse-packaging] generic provides for MPI environments

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:44:49 +0100, todd rme wrote:

There are currently at least 3 MPI (message passing interface) environments provided by openSUSE: lam, mpich, and openmpi. Packages related to MPI, like mpi-selector, and python-pypar, require an MPI environment be installed, but do not care which it is as long as it is compliant with the MPI standard. There is no easy way to specify this in the requires, however.

If so, what would be the best name for it?

Using a symbolic provides is a good idea. As (SUSE) maintainer of openmpi I'd propose to keep it simple and use mpi_implementation. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org