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Re: Octave & QtOctave
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Octave & QtOctave |
Date: |
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:47:44 +0100 |
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Kei Kebreau <address@hidden> skribis:
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> address@hidden skribis:
>>
>>> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some
>>> cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...).
>>
>> That randomness is very limited in practice, if I may. :-)
>>
>> https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Naming.html
>>
>> “qtoctave” was added by Kei. WDYT about the naming issue, Kei?
>>
>> Ludo’.
>
> I agree with ng0 that Octave and its GUI interface should be kept in
> separate packages, as the difference in size is more than 5000 MiB.
> I also agree that the GUI package should be named "octave", but I don't
> know whether the CLI package should be named "octave-minimal" or
> "octave-cli". I find myself leaning toward "octave-cli" because the CLI
> package does include some non-essential dependencies.
Makes sense to me. If others agree with this (“octave-cli” rather than
“octave-minimal”), go ahead!
Ludo’.