Symbolic computation on Fedora

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 09:59:40AM -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> Ick... This thing (sage) is a mess of bundled libraries you'll
> definitely need to manage your own install. This looks to be a ton of
> work to unbundle all the libraries if someone wanted to package it
> officially.

There was some work on packaging it for Fedora a few years ago; not sure
offhand where that went. A fundamental issue, as you've noticed, is that
Sage is more a software *distribution* itself than it is an appliction.
This doesn't lend itself well to packaging.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- SEAS Computing
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences