Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Octave Package Meta-Package

[Bill Denney <bill@denney.ws>]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Bill Denney <bill@denney.ws> [2008-05-18 15:04]:
>   
> > I would really like to see an octave-packages-recommended .deb that 
> > includes all packages that do not override core functionality.
> >     
>
> This is a good suggestion.  For R, there is the r-recommended package, with
> the following in its description:
>
>   This Debian package is now a metapackage that depends on a set of
>   packages that are recommended by the upstream R core team as part of a
>   complete R distribution [...]
>
> Could that package be called octave-recommended instead of
> octave-packages-recommended?
The name of the package is less important to me (I didn't know about the 
R metapackage, and the symmetry sounds good), but I would love to have 
the package itself.

Have a good day,

Bill