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Subject: Re: Octave & QtOctave
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:47:44 +0100
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Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> ng0@n0.is skribis:
>>
>>> names for packages are (mostly) random, although in some
>>> cases following classiifcations (see python-*, r-*, ...).
>>
>> That randomness is very limited in practice, if I may.  :-)
>>
>>   https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Naming.html
>>
>> =E2=80=9Cqtoctave=E2=80=9D was added by Kei.  WDYT about the naming issu=
e, Kei?
>>
>> Ludo=E2=80=99.
>
> I agree with ng0 that Octave and its GUI interface should be kept in
> separate packages, as the difference in size is more than 5000 MiB.
> I also agree that the GUI package should be named "octave", but I don't
> know whether the CLI package should be named "octave-minimal" or
> "octave-cli".  I find myself leaning toward "octave-cli" because the CLI
> package does include some non-essential dependencies.

Makes sense to me.  If others agree with this (=E2=80=9Coctave-cli=E2=80=9D=
 rather than
=E2=80=9Coctave-minimal=E2=80=9D), go ahead!

Ludo=E2=80=99.