Bug 744727

Summary:	sci-libs/mkl{,-rt}: redundant packages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Aisha Tammy <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein, lumin
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	747136

Description Aisha Tammy 2020-09-25 21:11:42 UTC

Currently we have multiple Intel MKL packages (two in ::gentoo, one in ::sci) which are, to my best guess, providing the exact same package in multiple ways.

I consider this to be quite worrying and frankly incorrect.

None of the packages are *wrong* but it feels like we should have a small effort to only provide one package which gives MKL.

Packages in point

 - sci-libs/mkl::gentoo
 - sci-libs/mkl-rt::gentoo
 - sci-libs/mkl::sci

sci-libs/mkl::gentoo seems to be the oldest one and frankly very outdate package, which can be replaced by moving sci-libs/mkl::sci to ::gentoo.

This would reduce it to two packages.
OTOH mkl-rt seems to be downloading the package from continuum, which seems to have taken the standard MKL package and broken it down into multiple packages.

sci-libs/mkl-rt, seems to be downloading the whole package and then installing only the libraries for use as eselect-ldso.

I am not sure if there are any obvious issues to moving the eselect-ldso to sci-libs/mkl.

Frankly, just having a single MKL package (disregarding mkldnn mklml) would make things a lot simpler. 

Comments?

Comment 1 Benda Xu gentoo-dev

2020-11-09 07:12:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 747310 ***