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* get pkg to resolve dependencies automatically by downloading and installing them too
* get pkg to resolve dependencies automatically by downloading and installing them too
* allow to download and install multiple versions of the same package
* allow to download and install multiple versions of the same package
* make the package just a bit more verbose by default (specifics?)
* make the package just a bit more verbose by default
* make pkg a little more like apt-get (what specific features of apt-get is this referring to?)
* make pkg a little more like apt-get
* make pkg support more than one src directory
* make pkg support more than one src directory
** subdirectories with makefiles and top level make command of: cd <subdir> && ${MAKE}... ok as a substitute?
** subdirectories with makefiles and top level make command of: cd <subdir> && ${MAKE}... ok as a substitute?
* make pkg able to supply extra configure and make flags, useful for distributions, including -j for make (pkg now passes --jobs=N automatically, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS environment variables are already respected, what's missing?)
* make pkg able to supply extra configure and make flags, useful for distributions, including -j for make


The main objective of this project is to make {{manual|pkg}} more user friendly and to make it a tool to foster third party participation in Octave.
The main objective of this project is to make {{manual|pkg}} more user friendly and to make it a tool to foster third party participation in Octave.
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