Hi
On 11 May 2012 16:50, Jan Groenewald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > On 11 May 2012 15:49, Nicolas M. Thiery <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:07:59PM +0200, Jan Groenewald wrote: >>> Yes, the goal of this is definitely ease-of-use and to get the user >>> as quick and painless as possible into a fully featured sage on Ubuntu. >>> >>> FYI, I will probably update the AIMS PPA with Sage5 from binary, >>> but will continue to work on an open PPA for the community where >>> we can have a from-source package. >>> >>> Now, I have added gfortran, libgfortran3, and gcc as dependencies. >>> Do I need to update the gcc dependency to be build-essential? >>> >>> I was even considering making texlive-latex-recommended a dependency. >>> Even texmaker! Other candidates are currently recommended: >>> x-www-browser, openssh-client, texlive, imagemagick, ffmpeg, dvipng >>> The last few are recommended here for certain sage functionality: >>> http://www.sagemath.org/doc/installation/source.html >>> >>> (I'm causing rather large downloads for all users of this package! >>> I should probably aim for one update...) >> >> Would it make sense to have two packages: >> >> - sage (the current package) with what's strictly needed to run sage >> as dependency: >> - libgfortran3 >> - gfortran? >> - firefox or x-www-browser >> >> - sage-recommended, a dummy package with dependencies: >> - gcc, build-essential >> - texlive, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-pictures (for tikz!) >> - imagemagick, ffmpeg, dvipng >> - openssh-client >> - an appropriate version of java for jmol > > I think two packages are a bit much as there is already > the recommends field. Then again, this is meant to > make it easy for end users. "Cut and paste these > three commands". No more. A sage monolithic PPA > might revisit those ideas though. > > I'd go for adding texlive-pictures and icedtea-plugin > right now; texlive-latex-recommended is already a dependency > of texlive. Change to: field to sage-devel, and also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/icedtea-web/+bug/998067 I'll wait a few days for an answer on that before adding icedtea-plugin and texlive-pictures as dependencies. Regards, Jan -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
