I would agree that this is now essentially fixed in 8.10 since the packages are available individually. However, creating a octave-forge meta package wouldn't be a bad idea, since people moving over from matlab expect certain libraries to just be there without having to install anything else. This is a common enough problem that the octave IRC help channel on freenode has had the channel topic set to "Please install the entire octave, which includes octave-forge" for as long as I remember.
So even if it wastes a bit of diskspace for unused libraries, having a convenience package called octave-force would probably decrease confusion enough to make it worthwhile for new users and those that support them. -- [needs-packaging] octave3.0-forge https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/212617 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
