* Francesco Potorti` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-01 14:16]: > Package: octave-nan > Version: 1.0.6-1 > Severity: normal > > The nan package overloads many functions, which means it should not be > autoloaded. It currently is, which I think is wrong. > > Mabe the same is true of other packages as well.
This issue has been already discussed in pkg-octave-devel [1]. It does not seem that we have reached a consensus and the interest on this just vanished down. My current opinion is that an octave add-on package should _*always_* autoload its functions. Packages in Debian should work out of the box after installation. If the user do not want the overload, she just does "apt-get remove octave-nan". Easy, simple, period. I would be inclined to close this bug report but let us discuss this a little further. [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-octave-devel/2008-May/004208.html -- Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
