Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[Philipp Thomas <Philipp.Thomas2@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:44:49 +0100, todd rme <toddrme2178@xxxxxxxxx>
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
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