Hi, On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Juan Aguado <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Some months ago the octave-forge packages were removed and a new app, > g-octave, were requiered to install the octave packages. I never understood > why this was better since octave forge is nothing like ctan, cran or cpan and > it requieres manual manteniance. > > Anyway, the package and its derivatives (the octave packages it supposes to > install) is completely unmantained. There are 13 open bugs that nobody cares > about them, is somewhat incompatible with the current stable version of > portage (try to do an "emerge -eav world" with some octave packages installed > and you will see a lot of warnings that shouldn't be there), the octave forge > packages are unmantained (for example, g-octave tries to install > control-1.0.13, while the newest control version is 2.1.55, or image > requieres media-libs/jpeg instead of virtual/jpeg, which is the only reason > why I'm not using libjpeg-turbo, btw), etc. > > I don't know how g-octave works, but with the old ebuild-based octave-package > installation method I was able to mantain a small repo for myself if things > were slow for a while. Now simply I can't install any octave package, and I'm > sure I'm not the only one (there are at least 4 other guys in gentoo forums > that don't like the current state of octave in gentoo). > > So please, provide a solution. Re-start the maintenance of g-octave, go back > to the ebuild-based thing, doing a new category if you want (the best > solution for me), or do something about this, please. > > Cheers, > >
I wrote a blog post about this topic, to avoid being repetitive. http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/post/g-octave-past-present-and-future/ TL;DR: Please read the documentation. -- Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
