> 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. Best, Matthias
