309367 – virtual/mpi - for what it exists?

Bug 309367 - virtual/mpi - for what it exists?

Summary: virtual/mpi - for what it exists?

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309365

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2010-03-14 12:50 UTC by marek wojciechowski
Modified:	2010-03-14 16:09 UTC (History)
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Description marek wojciechowski 2010-03-14 12:50:22 UTC

I observed today that many packages which can use MPI demand directly openpmi library instead of virtual/mpi (e.g. vtk, boost). So the question arises what is the reason for virtual/mpi if only one library for message passing have to be installed anyway. Actually this situation prevents us from using for example mpich2, because different MPI implementations block each other.

Is this possible to demand in ebuilds for boost, vtk, etc. just virtual/mpi? If not let's remove it from potage just to not pretend we have a choice for MPI library.



Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-14 16:09:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309365 ***