Atlas and lapack provide the same library..compiled differently... is that a problem?

[Jonathan Underwood]

2009/1/4 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>:
> Does yum prefer to install atlas over lapack when looking to fill
> liblapack.so.3 deps?
> Is that a problem for applications which are compiled against lapack
> but not atlas at build time?  This is the more general problem that
> worries me, Its probably a corner case in the dependency resolution
> space that you can only get to if you start from a pathologically
> broken starting point..like forcibly removing lapack and atlas from
> your system, then attempting to install something qhich requires that
> library.


lapack requires libblas which will means yum will pull in either the
atlas or blas package if neither are installed. Not sure which :)