Re: Octave build dependencies wiki

[Carnë Draug]

On 22 December 2013 18:31, CdeMills <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think the main table as it is constructed today will become unreadable
> over time. For now, we have
> Task     Name    Usage   License / Copyright     Version        Debian  
> ArchLinux        Level
> Recent CVE ?
>
> [...]
>
> Now, the translation between the package name and the packet
> name, if we consider that each platform/distribution uses some kind of
> package manager, is specific, with variations like libfontconfig-dev versus
> libfontconfig-devel. If we start listing all those variations, I fear that
> we'll end up with a gigantic table. Shouldn't we make one specific page per
> distribution, [...]

This pages already exist. At least for Debian and Debian based systems
[1] which includes package names for different Debian and Ubuntu
releases.

Carnë

[1] http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems