On Thu, 2025-09-11 at 14:18 -0500, Matthias Maier wrote:
> > TL;DR: I'm proposing removing eselect-blas/lapack and the virtuals,
> > and using sci-libs/flexiblas instead.
> 
> Yes, please!
> 
> 
> > Another potential concern is that FlexiBLAS seems to be largely
> > university-developed software, with a single maintainer, no public bug
> > tracker and a semi-public code repository (it seems that only releases
> > are pushed there rather than all changes).  The author seems quite
> > friendly, and addressed issues I've reported so far, but the risk is
> > there.  However, we're not alone here: Fedora has switched to FlexiBLAS
> > already.
> 
> On the other hand, BLAS/Lapack is a *very* slowly evolving standard. It
> would also be feasible to consider picking up maintenance of FlexiBLAS
> if the need arises.
> 
> 
> We could wait for support for LP64 / ILP64 in FlexiBLAS before
> switching. Or just switch and let ILP64 hang in the air for a bit.

Given that we don't really support ILP64 now (it's semi-accidental
at best), I suppose no harm in doing it now.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny