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Re: [ITP] maxima-5.35.1
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:02:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ITP] maxima-5.35.1
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Corinna Vinschen writes:
> I don't quite like the SUSE packaging with splitting out the language
> packs, but the Fedora packaging, while using another strategy, isn't
> really better, so that's ok.
âand Debian's and Arch's is even worse, IMHO. I wouldn't mind putting
the localization files back in the main package, but then there are
probably a lot of people who'd never use those files.
> What's not quite ok are the setup.hint files, IMHO. You have 7 packages
> and all ldesc's and sdesc's are exactly identical. While that's perhaps
> not much of a problem for the language packs, it certainly is for
> "maxima" vs. "maxima-exec-clisp" and "maxima-xmaxima". How's the user
> to know what each of these packages is doing when looking them up in
> setup?
>
> maxima "Maxima Computer Algebra System"
> maxima-exec-clisp "Maxima Computer Algebra System"
> maxima-xmaxima "Maxima Computer Algebra System"
>
> Package is GTG With a change to the sdescs to allow a user at least
> a bit of information in sdesc what the subpackages are doing.
Yeah, I'll fix that before release. Thanks for checking.
Regards,
Achim.
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