Re: Problem installing packages

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 28 May 2012 17:57, Martin Helm <address@hidden> wrote:
> Am 28.05.2012 23:35, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
>> This is because nobody is has take the trouble to properly package OF
>> for rpm-based distros since the prehistoric monolithic OF releases. So
>> yes, because nobody is doing it there, you *have* to do it yourself
>> and compile from source. But on Debian someone is taking care of the
>> packaging and compiling, so there's no need for most users to do it
>> again. - Jordi G. H.
> Completely not true, the science repository in openSUSE which is
> specialized for this kind of packages ships the OF packages as single
> packages and not since yesterday but for a long time.

Okay, sorry, partially true. It's Fedora and relatives that have
lagging on the OF packaging, and have been lagging for a long time:

    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OrionPoplawski/Octave_Packages

I wasn't aware that openSUSE did package them. Good to know.

> The fact that I compile them myself is because I prefer that

So why do you prefer that? Do you think everyone should compile
packages? Do you think openSUSE has wasted its time making packages?
Should we tell people to ignore the openSUSE packages and make sure
they can compile straight from OF instead and help them with all of
their compilation woes? Is that what we should be recommending?

- Jordi G. H.