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 > > Cheers, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <[email protected]> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
I've updated this package to DEPEND on the selection above, even if that is not the "debian way". It fits the purpose of this package. I may though, for the monolithic from source PPA, go back to recommends. 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
