Re: how to make "pkg load" automatically load dependencies

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 22:23:18 -0700, Andrew Janke wrote:
> I don't think the current Octave pkg command supports either of these. The
> package specification file format supports defining dependencies, and
> they're validated, but they're not automatically loaded or installed.

Not completely. It's correct that the 'pkg' command does not *install*
dependencies, but it does *load* them once they are installed.

For example,

    >> pkg list
    Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
    --------------+---------+-----------------------
         control  |   3.2.0 | /home/user/octave/control-3.2.0
          signal  |   1.4.1 | /home/user/octave/signal-1.4.1
    >> pkg load signal
    >> pkg list
    Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
    --------------+---------+-----------------------
         control *|   3.2.0 | /home/user/octave/control-3.2.0
          signal *|   1.4.1 | /home/user/octave/signal-1.4.1

To the original question, all that's needed is to include the Depends
field in the DESCRIPTION file. Refer to
https://www.octave.org/doc/interpreter/The-DESCRIPTION-File.html for the
full details.

-- 
mike

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