[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#672651: Bug#672651: Bug#672651: Bug#672651: octave-common: pkg prefix global config breaks local package installation

Mike Miller mtmiller at ieee.org
Tue May 15 12:58:29 UTC 2012


On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 04:16:13PM -0400, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> Yeah, I would prefer to keep the Debian packages up-to-date than to
> suggest to people to use pkg install. Source distribution is *very*
> un-Debian. This isn't Gentoo. Chasing dependencies and compiling is
> difficult, brittle, and frustrating. We should be recommending this as
> seldom as possible.
> [...]
> We should add something in README.Debian about how you really
> shouldn't be using pkg.

Cool, that works for me.  At least it'll be documented.

Thanks guys!

-- 
mike





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