On Thursday, 24 September 2015 at 14:44, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:21 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear maintainers, > > I've just enabled OpenCL support in the gromacs package[1] and would > > like to express a weak dependency on an OpenCL implementation, but I > > have no way of doing so at the moment. > > > > We have three packages which provide OpenCL implementations: > > beignet - Intel GPUs > > mesa-libOpenCL - AMD GPUs (only?) > > pocl - CPU-based > > > > Would it make sense to add a virtual provide to each of the packages > > to mean the all provide a "vendor" OpenCL implementation? For example, > > Provides: opencl-driver > > > > Then, any package that makes use of OpenCL could add > > Requires/Recommends/Suggests: opencl-driver > > > > Another approach could be to create a meta package (named > > opencl-drivers, for example - similar to xorg-x11-drivers) which would > > depend on all vendor-specific implementations. > > > > I guess the second approach is more fool-proof. Comments? > > yes - when we initially create the packages we actually already > discussed how to achieve this. > > I'd favor the second (meta-package) approach, nothing should go wrong > if all three are installed. Ok, thanks for your feedback. > I'd go even further and create an opencl package (or group?) to > install all kind of opencl packages, i.e. clinfo is a good thing to > start with. opencl-filesystem and opencl-headers could be merged, but opencl-utils comes from a separate upstream (and bundles some OpenCL 1.0 headers[2]), so it must be packaged separately. Regards, Dominik [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gromacs.git/commit/?id=dbabc099d66902daa094478024a8a331822b78bc [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266184 -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
