Re: octave packages

[David Bateman]

Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Tom Holroyd wrote:
>> 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".
>
> Actually, there is an octave-forge package, so you can do "yum install
> octave-forge".  And my concern was that those octave packages (that
> don't replace or change core octave behavior) should be automatically
> available to all users.
That is the default behavior of packages that are marked as "Autoload:
yes" in their DESCRIPTION files. So this should be fine.

Any feedback on my latest iteration of the patches?

D

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