Re: Old patches from Red Hat

[Daniel J Sebald]

Quentin Spencer wrote:

> while you won't get octave in a 
> CD installation of FC, it will be very easy to install a la Debian. This 
> really is a good thing

I guess it is good for experienced users.  New comers will be in the dark 
however.

> because you'll be able to stay more current with 
> new releases without building your own, and the maintainer will be 
> (hopefully) more familiar with octave and not apply wierd unnecessary 
> patches to the code, and we won't have weekly bug reports sent in by 
> people solving eigenvalue problems.

:)


Dan