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. What does everyone think about having a generic provides for MPI environments, such as pkconfig(MPI), that each of these can provide and that other packages could require in order to be MPI environment-agnostic? If so, what would be the best name for it? -Todd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org