[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#741097: Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

[Thomas Weber]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 06:04:16PM +0000, Arno Onken wrote:
> Thanks for your quick response.
> 
> I have Octave running on a couple of low resource devices which don't
> even have X. On these systems, unnecessary dependencies are a waste of
> precious space.
> [...]
> I wasn't aware of this discussion. Your comparison of required disk
> space was very informative. Indeed, the Qt dependency doesn't make a big
> difference when compared to the additional Java and LLVM dependencies.
> But the minimum installation size more than doubles from 3.6.4 to 3.8.0.
> So I think a low resources package with more dependencies striped off
> would actually be very useful.

I think you should bring up that topic on upstream's maintainer list.[1] I
don't think we have that many machines which are constrained by the
additional disk space, so if we as Debian maintainers complain, it is
just not the same as a user who really has the hardware (perceived
issue vs. real problem).

BTW, can you give an example of one of your low ressource machines?

[1] https://mailman.cae.wisc.edu/listinfo/octave-maintainers

	Thomas