Re: docs in Octave package?

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Ionut Biru <ibiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

How?  I'd like to build it 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.

It appears to me that the original package is 8 MB, and the modified is
15 MB.  Perhaps a bit large.

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Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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