Re: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Jake <address@hidden> wrote:
> So there's still some manual work involved then.  I was envisioning
> something more like apt-get on Ubuntu, where it would tell you what main
> packages it was going to install, the dependencies it also needs to install,
> and finally prompt you to make sure that it's okay to install all of them.
> I really don't see a point to this unless it does take care of the
> dependencies since pkg install will fail without those dependencies.

This feature is useful at least for me. I typically install the same
small set of packages when I compile and install a new Octave version.
This allows me to auto-download the packages from the web instead of
keeping tarballs around.

>
> I hadn't gotten a chance to implement my idea, but it was like this:
>

You still have a chance to implement whatever you want. Feel free to
replace all my code by something more powerful, make a patch and
propose it.


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