Am Tue, 18 Apr 2017 08:54:16 -0500 schrieb Jason Bacon <bacon4000%gmail.com@localhost>: > I'm not sure what your concern is about messiness. We're talking about > a new category for mostly new packages. Yes, some existing packages may > be moved to science and dependents will need to be updated, but that's > easy and will probably happen very slowly anyway. A new category is fine … although my scripts also do not care much and I have them do a search anyway. One could debate if topical categories are really that helpful (a scheme as suggested by Kamil would enable me to guess a package location rather reliably … if we dropped uppercase letters from names). I hope any moving of existing packages is done rarely. This breaks local patches, for example … creates work just for work's sake. > FYI, pkgsrc has a huge potential impact on scientific computing and > research in general. Most HPC clusters run CentOS, which deliberately +1 I'm not sure if most clusters really run CentOS specifically, but I am part of that trend (minimal software costs, maximum hardware delivered, still somewhat supported by vendors → CentOS). I introduced pkgsrc for the reasons you mentioned, combining it with differing toolchains (local patch pending for using external MPI) to present a menu of userspaces to the users. We want updated software, but also the unchanged software we used 3 years ago to reproduce computations. Versioned Pkgsrc prefixes give us that. HPC is always a niche in terms of user count, but the traces in pkgsrc are obvious (the whole geography category, for example … and even things like wip/trinity). Alrighty then, Thomas -- Dr. Thomas Orgis Universität Hamburg RRZ / Basis-Infrastruktur / HPC Schlüterstr. 70 20146 Hamburg Tel.: 040/42838 8826 Fax: 040/428 38 6270
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