Re: gnubish question: installing packages in octave 3.6.4

[Robert Poor]

@Jordi:

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> The one you started from is fine:
>
>    http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_MacOS_X#Fink

Thanks for the note.  I noticed (belatedly) that the Wiki says to use
Fink to load Octave packages.

After doing "fink install octaveXXX-dev", the user can load Octave
packages using Octave's 'pkg install' function.

But as the Wiki points out, loading packages via Fink also works.

Do you have any opinion as to which approach is preferable?
Certainly, the first approach is less surprising, since the Octave
documentation says that 'pkg install' is how you load packages.  But
are there advantages to using Fink instead?