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From: | Søren Hauberg |
Subject: | Re: packaging system |
Date: | Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:53:00 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) |
John W. Eaton wrote:
The implementation I linked to in another post earlier today does depency checking at installation time. It will check if the needed packages (but not external libraries) are installed. However, I don't think dependency checking at uninstallation time will be implemented as it seems a bit harder (more book-keeping is necesary).On 15-Jun-2005, Søren Hauberg wrote:| I'm really no expert on the subject of packaging systems, but it seems | to me that the largest problem with creating such systems, is to what | extend dependencies should be handled.It would be good to have some dependency checking, but I'm not sure that it really matters too much until we also have a way to download and install packages from Octave (or using some other script).
/Søren
jwe
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