why atlas for py-scipy?

[Jack Howarth]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 05:35:20AM +1000, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2011-7-24 05:29 , Rainer Müller wrote:
> > On 2011-07-23 21:11 , Jack Howarth wrote:
> >>    Currently the default py26-scipy can't build on Lion due to the
> >> broken atlas build.
> > 
> > As a workaround use the +no_atlas variant.
> 
> Which, incidentally, should really become -atlas. (It already is in numpy.)

Is there really any purpose to maintaining the atlas package? Can anyone point
to a particular problem that it solves which is not better handled by just 
using vecLib? Packages which only serve as distractions don't help either
MacPorts or fink.
               Jack

> 
> - Josh
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