[Pkg-octave-devel] Octave Package Meta-Package
Bill Denney
bill at denney.ws
Sun May 18 19:33:37 UTC 2008
Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Bill Denney <bill at denney.ws> [2008-05-18 15:04]:
>
>> I would really like to see an octave-packages-recommended .deb that
>> includes all packages that do not override core functionality.
>>
>
> This is a good suggestion. For R, there is the r-recommended package, with
> the following in its description:
>
> This Debian package is now a metapackage that depends on a set of
> packages that are recommended by the upstream R core team as part of a
> complete R distribution [...]
>
> Could that package be called octave-recommended instead of
> octave-packages-recommended?
The name of the package is less important to me (I didn't know about the
R metapackage, and the symmetry sounds good), but I would love to have
the package itself.
Have a good day,
Bill
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