[Bug 212617] Re: [needs-packaging] octave3.0-forge

[pavon]

I would agree that this is now essentially fixed in 8.10 since the
packages are available individually. However, creating a octave-forge
meta package wouldn't be a bad idea, since people moving over from
matlab expect certain libraries to just be there without having to
install anything else. This is a common enough problem that the octave
IRC help channel on freenode has had the channel topic set to "Please
install the entire octave, which includes octave-forge" for as long as I
remember.

So even if it wastes a bit of diskspace for unused libraries, having a
convenience package called octave-force would probably decrease
confusion enough to make it worthwhile for new users and those that
support them.

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[needs-packaging] octave3.0-forge
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