[Pkg-octave-devel] the new pkg system and dependencies

[Thomas Weber]

Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 22:08 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere:
> * Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <ojs at klaki.net> [2007-04-19 17:59]:
> > Hi, I tried to install a forge package using the new pkg command, a
> > moment ago and got an error because I had not installed
> > octave2.9-headers which contains the mkoctfile program.
> >
> > Maby the headers should be moved up from suggest to depend for the
> > octave2.9 package?
>
> Please, fill a bug report against the package, such that your request is
> recorded in the BTS and we do not forget it.

Uh, this will be a circular dependency; release managers will probably tar and 
feather us for that. 

However, it might make sense to merge the two packages:
- The size gain is not that much anymore, 30 MB installed for Octave and 3 MB 
installed for the headers (atlas3-base alone comes with 18 MB on i386, so a 
serious Octave installation is by no means small).

- It eases usage of the pkg.m system.

	Thomas
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