On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 05:44:33PM +0400, Кириллов Александр wrote:
1. Why is the octave in http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_12.1/ ? (At the same time qtoctave in Pacman Repository) Why not both packages are in OSS?
I am one of maintainers of octave, octave-forge and other related packages. The history is such, that octave was moved into Contrib in its good times as addon for Factory. When good times switched to bad times, I moved it in science repo and I am satisfied with it so far. It have some new dependencies that also don't exist in factory. If you want, you can surely help with any thing you want. Some tips are: * qhull issues (search octave-help mailinglist; we build against 2012.1 now but it seems it have some issues) * octave-forge doesn't build some time for factory and openSUSE 12.1 due some gcc errors * if you really want to have octave in factory, push its dependencies into factory first and then octave itself Keep in touch, Petr