[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#500783: Bug#500783: octave-nan: the nan package should not be autoloaded

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti.cnr.it> [2008-10-01 14:16]:

> Package: octave-nan
> Version: 1.0.6-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The nan package overloads many functions, which means it should not be
> autoloaded.  It currently is, which I think is wrong.
> 
> Mabe the same is true of other packages as well.

This issue has been already discussed in pkg-octave-devel [1].  It does not
seem that we have reached a consensus and the interest on this just
vanished down.

My current opinion is that an octave add-on package should _*always_*
autoload its functions.  Packages in Debian should work out of the box after
installation.  If the user do not want the overload, she just does "apt-get
remove octave-nan".  Easy, simple, period.

I would be inclined to close this bug report but let us discuss this a
little further.

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2008-May/004208.html

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Rafael