questions about comps files

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Jul 29 11:08:19 UTC 2006


On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:58:34AM +0100, Jose' Matos wrote:
> > For what it's worth, locally I change that group to "Engineering, Math, and
> > Science".
>   The question is really this, the relation between comps files and Groups. 
> Groups seems to be obsolete and never had (AFAIK) very clear rules.

I mean I change that component; I leave the groups alone.

>   We ship several libraries that have other dependencies, and are interesting 
> in themselves, why should not them be referred in comps?

Yes, this is kind of messy in the area of scientific computation. Also,
development libraries.

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