Re: octave packages

[Tom Holroyd]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 00:58 +0200, David Bateman wrote:
> That is what the "pkg load auto" command that is in a PKG_ADD command
> does. The packages flag their default behavior in the description and
> those marked "Autoload: yes" are loaded at startup.

I think he meant, when somebody does "apt get octave" or "yum install
octave" does it automatically download a bunch of packages. Right now
packages are outside the scope of such systems. There isn't any "yum
install octave-forge".

Dr. Tom
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