[ofa-general] RE: [ewg] RFC: Do we wish to take MPI out of OFED?

[Doug Ledford]

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 09:44 -0400, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> 3. As Doug described, packaging MPI and OFED together actually makes  
> it *harder* for distros.  Remember that RHEL and SUSE don't end up  
> using any of the OFED packaging; they essentially use the individual  
> SRPMs.

One minor clarification, it's not so much the RPM packaging that makes
things difficult, it's the compatibility matrix.  Since things aren't
designed to cleanly inter-operate with each other in anything other than
very specific combinations, it means that updates are an all or nothing
affair.  This is in direct contrast to the rest of our entire operating
system where we isolate and target things that need fixed and only
things that need fixed.

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