Re: very small packages - merge into general/miscelleneous or move into core

[Sébastien Villemot]

Hi Carlo,

Le mercredi 29 janvier 2014 à 06:50 +0100, c. a écrit :
> On 24 Jan 2014, at 10:21, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 24 Jan 2014, at 08:11, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >>> I don't have time right now, but maybe with the refactored pkg.m we
> >>> might be able to overcome this by patching pkg.m directly (which we have
> >>> avoided in the past). 
> >> 
> >> I'm preparing a patch to make this approach easier.
> > 
> > Could you please check out the attached changeset?
> > 
> > With it you should be able to change the default
> > package installation paths by patching the single file
> > 
> > scripts/pkg/private/default_prefix.m
> > 
> > you should only change the path for global install
> > and leave the default for local install unchanged.
> > 
> > Does this approach suit your needs?

> Did you have time to look at this patch?

I am not sure what you are trying to achieve with this patch. Is the
idea to move the default global prefix out of pkg.m, into a new smaller
file? If this is indeed the case, I don't think this is especially
relevant for us. We can patch pkg.m directly.

Actually I realize that we may not even need to patch it. I am currently
investigating whether we really need to set "pkg prefix"
in /etc/octave.conf. Maybe this is no longer needed.

Cheers,

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