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Re: Bug#914373: octave-statistics: accessing installed functions is needlessly obscure



Le samedi 24 novembre 2018 à 11:43 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
> [Moving this discussion from Bug#914373 into debian-octave.]
> 
> * James Van Zandt <jim.vanzandt@gmail.com> [2018-11-22 13:34]:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Please provide a file /usr/share/doc/octave-
> > statistics/README.Debian 
> > with a note something like
> > 
> >    By default installed packages are not available from the Octave
> >    prompt.  The functions from this package can be added to the
> > Octave
> >    path by typing
> > 
> >         pkg load statistics
> > 
> >    at the Octave command line.
> > 
> > [snip]
> 
> The bug reporter also suggests to add README.Debian files for all 
> other OF packages.
> 
> Do the other members of the DOG agree with this change?

That seems excessive to me. The fact that OF packages are not auto-
loaded is the consequence of a global setting (in Octave itself), so it
does not make sense to document it in individual packages.

I would rather update the README.Debian of octave. It currently tells
never to use the "pkg" command, which is bad advice, since that command
is needed to load the packages.

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