Octave MESSAGE

[Jason Bacon <outpaddling%yahoo.com@localhost>]

I'd like to suggest the following for math/octave:

Index: MESSAGE
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/math/octave/MESSAGE,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 MESSAGE
--- MESSAGE    24 Jan 2017 12:31:18 -0000    1.2
+++ MESSAGE    29 Mar 2019 16:11:31 -0000
@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@
 following line to ~/.octaverc:
     graphics_toolkit("gnuplot");

+If running remotely on a host that does not have an X11 server installed,
+(such as HPC compute nodes) you will need to install fonts on the remote
+host.  (Suggestion: meta-pkgs/modular-xorg-fonts)
+
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I support research computing and we sometimes have users run graphical 
apps remotely on headless development machines or cluster compute nodes.

It does not make sense to install and run an X11 server on these hosts 
as they have no local display and 99% of the packages involved would 
serve no purpose.

The only thing needed to run most X11 apps is xauth, which helps 
automatically set $DISPLAY to point to the user's PC.

Some apps require fonts installed on the host running the X11 app, however.

We had some discussion about this a while ago regarding other apps like 
emacs and gedit.

We could make some fonts package a dependency for each app that needs 
them, but that gets sticky because different users will want or even 
need different font sets depending on their personal preferences or 
locale.  So, I think it's better to just educate the end user and let 
them install the fonts they want separately.

Cheers,

    JB