Re: Octave & QtOctave

[Kei Kebreau <kkebreau@posteo.net>]

Hello all,

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) 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
>
> “qtoctave” was added by Kei.  WDYT about the naming issue, Kei?
>
> Ludo’.

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.