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Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add libpetsc
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 20:20:24 +0200
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On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 11:26:48AM -0500, Eric Bavier wrote:
> I was originally thinking "petsc" but then discovered that the package
> name on many other distributions is "libpetsc".  I would personally
> prefer "petsc".

Our general rule is to use the upstream name (less need to think!), while
I think other distributions often add "lib" for packages that do not contain
executables.

Andreas