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On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Juan Aguado <juantxorena@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> I wrote a blog post about this topic, to avoid being repetitive.
>>
>> http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/post/g-octave-past-present-and-future/
>>
>> TL;DR: Please read the documentation.
>>
>>
>
> First of all, sorry if I've offended somebody. That wasn't my intention. =
My intention was only to show the current state of octave in gentoo.
Do you know how much "members" the "gentoo octave" project have?
> However, I also find annoying that people assumes that I haven't read the=
documentation or made an effort to fix the problems.
Each sentence you write make this more obvious.
> Anyway, I find more time-consuming to log in in a github account to propo=
se some changes and wait them to be approved than to update an ebuild of fi=
ll a bug. Not to mention thta when I try to update de g-octave database, I =
get this message: '"--sync" not available, please install g-octave-9999 if =
you want this.', and I'm forced to install a masked version of a package th=
at, as the docs says, is not recommended to use. Not to mention that I also=
have real life problems and I don't have time to mess with this things.
1) You DON'T need to use Github to update the package database.
There's a big and shiny warning on this section of the docs saying
that end-users don't need to read. Just do it if you want to help
other users. Use the --scm option of g-octave, and package.keywords to
unmask the scm packages you want to install.
2) You DON'T need to use --sync at all, g-octave can install packages
from octave-forge SVN repository with the damn --scm option.
3) stable releases of g-octave comes with a package database, that is
installed by 'emerge --config'. We do this for security reasons. The
live version obviously don't comes with a package database, then you
need the '--sync' option to get one from github.
That's it
Regards,
--=20
Rafael Goncalves Martins
Gentoo Linux developer
http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/