[Pkg-octave-devel] Moving pkg.m into octave3.0-header
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Sun Jun 29 09:56:30 UTC 2008
* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-06-29 11:02]:
> On 01/05/08 11:08 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > On 18/04/08 11:25 +0200, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > Okay, new problem. pkg() is called in /etc/octave.conf.
>
> No comment for a while, so I'm planning to continue as stated below:
>
> Close 420079 and 420080 without resolution.
>
> We use pkg.m in octave3.0 for package loading (loading, not installation), so
> we can't move it into octave3.0-headers. mkoctfile can't be moved into
> octave3.0, because we need the development packages (fftw, blas, ..) and
> their installation is triggered by octave3.0-header's installation.
>
> Which leaves us with merging the package and I'm not happy with that:
> installing octave would than get _lots_ of stuff onto your machine, people
> might never use.
Perhaps we should document the "problem" in README.Debian? At any rate, I
agree with closing the bug reports without resolution.
--
Rafael
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