Re: Removing packages from Octave Forge

[Carnë Draug]

On 8 January 2014 15:24, marco atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> Il 1/8/2014 4:13 PM, Carnė Draug ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm removing some packages from the "official" list [1]. I've removed
>> combinatorics, physicalconstants, and time which were transitional
>> dummy packages for miscellaneous, general, and financial packages
>> respectively. I have also removed es and pt_br which were translations
>> for very old versions of Octave (installing them nowadays may give
>> help text in those languages but a very out of date text).
>>
>> Does anyone knows or thinks there are others that should also be removed?
>>
>> Carnė
>>
>
> If I am not wrong:
>
> openmpi_ext is a dummy for mpi

But only for 3 months. The others were dummy packages for more than 1 year.

> octclip was replaced by geometry

I'm not so sure. My understanding was that the octclip maintainer
wants to keep it as a separate repository so I think it was going to
be removed from geometry instead.

Carnë