[Pkg-octave-devel] Packaging Octave 3.8

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2013-12-11 12:44]:

> Le mercredi 11 décembre 2013 à 12:34 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>>
>> 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.

If there will be two different binaries in the octave package, then, you 
are right, what I said about RAM is not relevant.

Rafael