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 am not sure this is worth the effort. The only benefit of splitting the package is that people with low disk space will not be forced to install Qt. That does not seem like a huge gain. -- .''`. Sébastien Villemot : :' : Debian Developer `. `' http://www.dynare.org/sebastien `- GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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