[Slackbuilds-users] sage up for grabs UNMAINTAINED

[Glenn Becker]

Thanks for your work on this. I know that thing well enough to know it is a
#$)*@#$@^T& behemoth.

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On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:17 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:

> All
>
> Anyone who wants to maintain SAGE can have it. I've tried to get a new
> version working for months.
>
> 1. Upstream does not want you to compile as root
> 2. All modules paths are hard coded during compile
> 3. relocatable package impossible? - I can't get it to work
>
> The devs want the end user to compile as user in $HOME, and so seem
> hostile to the idea that anyone might not.  There are scripts etc to try
> to fix the directory paths to relocate the folder tree - they use one
> for the bre-built binary - but I can't get it to work, or generate one
> for Slackware
>
> I give up.  I'm dropping this turd.
>
> Admins,
> Please remove my name/email from sage.info and mark as UNMAINTAINED.
> I'm tired of getting (hate)emails.
>
> Thanks
> Ed
>
>
>
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