Re: octave packages

[Orion Poplawski]

Tom Holroyd wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 00:58 +0200, David Bateman wrote:
> > That is what the "pkg load auto" command that is in a PKG_ADD command
> > does. The packages flag their default behavior in the description and
> > those marked "Autoload: yes" are loaded at startup.
>
> I think he meant, when somebody does "apt get octave" or "yum install
> octave" does it automatically download a bunch of packages. Right now
> packages are outside the scope of such systems. There isn't any "yum
> install octave-forge".

Actually, there is an octave-forge package, so you can do "yum install 
octave-forge".  And my concern was that those octave packages (that 
don't replace or change core octave behavior) should be automatically 
available to all users.


Going forward we will probably split the octave-forge package into 
individual packages, but the same idea applies.  We might keep an 
octave-forge meta package around that brings in the other packages as well.

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