Le mercredi 11 décembre 2013 à 09:03 -0500, Mike Miller a écrit : > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:24:24 +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > Le mardi 10 décembre 2013 à 23:27 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit : > >> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien@debian.org> [2013-12-10 12:59]: > > > >>> Also, there are now 3 top-level binaries instead of one: octave, > >>> octave-cli and octave-gui. I am inclined to ship them in the same > >>> binary package (octave), but another option would be to create another > >>> binary package without the GUI stuff, for systems with limited > >>> resources. > >> > >> Yes, please, split the packages. People running Octave from batches > >> (like I do, sometimes) will appreciate it. > > > > I just realized that there is one added complexity with this approach. > > We will have two packages providing octave: one will be just "octave" > > like now (containing the binary which can do both GUI and command-line), > > and "octave-cli" (containing the binary which can do only command-line). > > It would therefore be logic to modify most reverse dependencies, like > > the 'Forge packages, to depend on "octave | octave-cli", in order not to > > force people to install the GUI-capable version (which would defeat the > > purpose of splitting the packages). > > I don't see the added complexity, maybe I am missing something. The > octave package will contain /usr/bin/octave and /usr/bin/octave-cli, as > well as all the oct-files as it does today. This is all that is needed > to run CLI-mode octave, run m-file scripts, and install Forge packages. > > The new octave-gui package will contain /usr/bin/octave-gui and depend > on the octave package. It's an added layer instead of an alternative. Sorry I just realized that, with your proposed splitting scheme (the GUI in octave-gui), it is indeed not necessary to modify reverse-dependencies. However how do you see that evolve when the GUI becomes the default with Octave 4.0? Will /usr/bin/octave be linked against liboctgui? -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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