>> Regarding this, the installer contains a small description of each
>> package, which is shown when the user moves the mouse over
>> the package item. This description is automatically extracted from
>> the DESCRIPTION files, as found in the octave-forge source tree.
>>
>> To avoid manual work, is it imaginable to put this additional info
>> (that fact that a package will shadow regular octave functions) in
>> those DESCRIPTION files
>
> Yes, it makes sense... Please propose (or apply) a patch..
I'm no really aware of what shadows what in o-f packages. Could
someone with more knowledge of o-f take care of this?