[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 3.8
Sébastien Villemot
sebastien at debian.org
Wed Dec 11 11:44:13 UTC 2013
Le mercredi 11 décembre 2013 à 12:34 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2013-12-11 12:24]:
> > I am not sure this is worth the effort. The only benefit of splitting
> > the package is that people with low disk space will not be forced to
> > install Qt. That does not seem like a huge gain.
>
> It is also a matter of RAM, since octave-gui, when launched, will load
> the whole Qt libraries into memory, which is undesirable for batch
> processes.
Sure, but this is not relevant for our discussion. If we don't split the
octave package, there will still be an octave-cli binary shipped in the
octave package. So splitting the packages is really only about disk
space.
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