Build sage with components those are already installed

asked 2011-12-12 10:35:00 +0100

Gong-Yi Liao
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Hi, I am using Linux Mint 12 (Ubuntu 11.10 based) mixed with Debian unstable. In fact, I have almost all the components of SAGE installed on my system (python-scipy, R, maxima, ... etc). I am wondering if there are any options available in Makefile or configure file those allow me build only the sage's interface to these installed packages rather than build __everything from source spkg__ ?

answered 2011-12-12 12:42:33 +0100

kcrisman
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updated 2011-12-13 09:36:41 +0100

Welcome to Sage!

The short answer is no. A long time ago we had a Debian version along these lines, but that is not current, though I think some folks have been working on it.

However, Sage on Gentoo sort of does this, using system versions.

The longer answer is about Sage's philosophy of "batteries included", which someone else might want to comment on - there are endless discussions of this on the Sage development list every so often.

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I agree that "batteries included" approach is a robust way to provide a conglomerate tool like SAGE. Although such a conservative approach can have some overhead, but now a day the cost of disk space is cheaper, (if we, irrelevantly, compare to the cost of solving the program integration problem, the disk space cost almost can be totally ignored).

Gong-Yi Liao ( 2011-12-12 14:22:49 +0100 )edit

Yes, 10 or 15 years ago this would have been a really different story.

kcrisman ( 2011-12-13 09:36:24 +0100 )edit

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