I don't see why a Readme.DEBIAN file in each package would be
difficult to manage. If needed, it could be generic, with the
same text in each package, such as:
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 <package name>
at the Octave command line.
I note a discussion of autoloading packages here:
particularly a comment by LachlanA;
> My personal belief is that the __unimplemented__ function, which
> currently tells us which package we should load, should just load
> the package and continue (unless the same function is implemented
> in multiple packages, in which case it should list all of those
> packages and give an error).
>
> That would most closely emulate the Matlab experience, while
> avoiding the problems Carnë described.
I would appreciate that. However, I'd be satisfied if the __unimplemented__ function simply knew about all the functions available in packages. (Currently it doesn't - the subject of another bug).