Package: octave2.9 Version: 2.9.10-4
* Thomas Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-19 22:36]: > Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 22:08 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere: > > * Olafur Jens Sigurdsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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. Okay, I am doing it hereby. > 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. I agree with you: $ apt-cache show octave2.9 | grep ^Size Size: 7475116 $ apt-cache show octave2.9-headers | grep ^Size Size: 344298 Merging both packages will result into an increase of only 5% in the size of octave2.9. -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]