Customize your sidekit via environment variables
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**SIDEKIT** might use LIBSVM, Theno or MPI depending on how and what you intend to do.
Here is how to enable/disable the import of the dedicated module to allow running **SIDEKIT**
without thoes libraries.

The SIDEKIT environment variable
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When importing **SIDEKIT**, it will check the value of an enironment variable called ``SIDEKIT``.
By default, this variable is set to:

   SIDEKIT="libsvm=true,mpi=false"

Thus:
   - LIBSVM will be imported to if the proper library has been compiled for this specific machine
   - MPI parallel computation will be disable

How to disable LIBSVM?
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Set your environment variable to ``SIDEKIT="libsvm=false"``

How to enable MPI parallel computing?
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Set your environment variable to ``SIDEKIT="mpi=true"``