[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #60472] pkg -global option changes pkg prefix for subsequent calls

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #60472 (project octave):

Where you write "prefix" you actually refer to the difference between local
and global packages, right?
FTR, "prefix" is also meant for the storage location of local packages. It's
confusing, agreed.

It would be good if the (or a?) desired behavior of pkg.m gets sorted out well
and compared to its actual behavior. But then again both may differ depending
on platform, on where/how Octave got installed and maybe on who is doing some
operation (admin/root or ordinary user).
In some way there seem to be just too many options and scenario's.

As to rmdir:
Would it help to temporarily wrap calls to rmdir into an if block that checks
if rmdir's input argument is empty? Then you don't have to rebuild Octave.

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