Shutting down the Atlas port

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Nov 6 05:38:36 UTC 2020


On Nov 5, 2020, at 18:43, Fred Wright wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> DSDP
>> R
>> esmf
>> gr-specest
>> itpp
>> levmar
>> lua-numlua
>> nco
>> psfex
>> py-numpy
>> py-scipy
>> scamp
>> shogun
>> shogun-devel
>> source-extractor
>> stimfit
>> sundials
>> sundials2
> 
> That's an incomplete list.  For example:
> 
> MacPro:~ fw$ port installed $(port dependents atlas | awk '{print $1}')
> The following ports are currently installed:
>  arpack @3.7.0_0+atlas+gfortran (active)
>  qrupdate @1.1.2_6+atlas+gcc48 (active)
>  SuiteSparse_SPQR @2.0.8_0+atlas
>  SuiteSparse_SPQR @2.0.9_0+atlas
>  SuiteSparse_SPQR @2.0.9_1+atlas (active)

Oh. My list is of those ports whose Portfiles include a dependency on port:atlas. I had not realized that there is also a linear_algebra portgroup that ports could include that might add the dependency.


> I believe all three of those ports have alternative variants with similar functionality, but one has to be careful to distinguish such cases from cases where atlas is the only means of providing its functionality.

Well regardless one has to address all of the ports.




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