Re: how to make "pkg load" automatically load dependencies

[Qianqian Fang]

thank you Mike, the Depends field in DESCRIPTION was exactly what I was 
looking
for. I also tested on my package, and it worked well.

On 10/11/19 2:10 AM, Mike Miller wrote:
> Not completely. It's correct that the 'pkg' command does not *install*
> dependencies, but it does *load* them once they are installed.
>
> For example,
>
>      >> pkg list
>      Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
>      --------------+---------+-----------------------
>           control  |   3.2.0 | /home/user/octave/control-3.2.0
>            signal  |   1.4.1 | /home/user/octave/signal-1.4.1
>      >> pkg load signal
>      >> pkg list
>      Package Name  | Version | Installation directory
>      --------------+---------+-----------------------
>           control *|   3.2.0 | /home/user/octave/control-3.2.0
>            signal *|   1.4.1 | /home/user/octave/signal-1.4.1
>
> To the original question, all that's needed is to include the Depends
> field in the DESCRIPTION file. Refer to
> https://www.octave.org/doc/interpreter/The-DESCRIPTION-File.html for the
> full details.