[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 3.8

[Sébastien Villemot]

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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