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

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Sébastien Villemot
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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Hi,

Please change the subject of the conversation what you are discussing
seems not too related ot the current one and othe rpeople might be
missing this discussion.