Re: Octave & QtOctave

[Ludovic Courtès]

Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> address@hidden skribis:
>>
>>> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some
>>> cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...).
>>
>> That randomness is very limited in practice, if I may.  :-)
>>
>>   https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Naming.html
>>
>> “qtoctave” was added by Kei.  WDYT about the naming issue, Kei?
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> I agree with ng0 that Octave and its GUI interface should be kept in
> separate packages, as the difference in size is more than 5000 MiB.
> I also agree that the GUI package should be named "octave", but I don't
> know whether the CLI package should be named "octave-minimal" or
> "octave-cli".  I find myself leaning toward "octave-cli" because the CLI
> package does include some non-essential dependencies.

Makes sense to me.  If others agree with this (“octave-cli” rather than
“octave-minimal”), go ahead!

Ludo’.