@adamjstewart
```
think you'll find that if you try running something like:
spack spec libsplash ^hdf5@1.8.15
It will complain that libsplash does not depend on hdf5.
This is a bug in Spack's dependency resolution. A workaround
for this is to tell it to always depend on hdf5.
```
@davydden
```
to expand on @adamjstewart comment, spack will make a union
of dependencies,
i.e. hdf5@1.8.6: + hdf5+mpi = hdf5:1.8.6:+mpi, that's why it works.
```
thank you for the hint!
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