[arch-general] docs in Octave package?

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Fri Jul 15 10:51:25 EDT 2011


On 07/15/2011 05:36 PM, XeCycle wrote:
> Hello, I read from the package database that Ronald van Haren maintains
> the package "octave", but I cannot contact him, so I'm asking here.
>
> I need the documents of octave, but it's not in the current octave
> package, so I need to compile it manually after each update.  However
> the compilation is very time and power consuming, it can drive my CPU to
> 100 degrees --- which is not very fine for a laptop.
>
> Could you please build a separate "octave-docs" package?
>

It will be nice if you post a patch to include this docs in the octave 
package or in a separate package.

Imo  if the docs use less than 50% from the size, then is fine to 
include it in the octave package.

-- 
Ionuț


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