Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2018-02-02 Thread Christian Himpe
- On Feb 2, 2018, at 1:03 AM, Mike Miller mtmil...@debian.org wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:13:40 -0800, Mike Miller wrote: >> If this bug is still of interest, I think a useful first step would be >> for someone to adapt the octave source package and add the appropriate >>

Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2018-02-01 Thread Mike Miller
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:13:40 -0800, Mike Miller wrote: > If this bug is still of interest, I think a useful first step would be > for someone to adapt the octave source package and add the appropriate > --without-X options. Once there are proof of concept binary packages > built without any

Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2018-02-01 Thread Mike Miller
If this bug is still of interest, I think a useful first step would be for someone to adapt the octave source package and add the appropriate --without-X options. Once there are proof of concept binary packages built without any graphical dependencies, then a useful disk usage comparison can be

Bug#741097: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2014-03-22 Thread Arno Onken
On 18.03.2014 07:07, Thomas Weber wrote: I think you should bring up that topic on upstream's maintainer list.[1] I don't think we have that many machines which are constrained by the additional disk space, so if we as Debian maintainers complain, it is just not the same as a user who really

Bug#741097: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2014-03-18 Thread Thomas Weber
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 06:04:16PM +, Arno Onken wrote: Thanks for your quick response. I have Octave running on a couple of low resource devices which don't even have X. On these systems, unnecessary dependencies are a waste of precious space. [...] I wasn't aware of this discussion.

Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2014-03-08 Thread Arno Onken
Package: octave Version: 3.8.0-5 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Starting with version 3.8, the octave package contains a GUI based on the Qt toolkit. An `octave-cli' executable which is not linked against Qt is provided in the package, but there is no octave package that does not depend on

Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2014-03-08 Thread Mike Miller
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 13:48:08 +, Arno Onken wrote: Starting with version 3.8, the octave package contains a GUI based on the Qt toolkit. An `octave-cli' executable which is not linked against Qt is provided in the package, but there is no octave package that does not depend on Qt.

Bug#741097: octave: nox package of Octave

2014-03-08 Thread Arno Onken
Thanks for your quick response. On 08.03.2014 16:00, Mike Miller wrote: Can you explain specifically what you think the advantages of having a nox version of octave would be? I'm not refuting your request, just that you haven't specifically said what the problem with the current approach is