Re: RFC: new task-science package
I'd rather like to see it called "task-numerical" or "task-numcalc"
or something like this. As the description says the package is about
scientific computing, data analysis, etc. "Science" would be much
more comprehensive and should include tools like theorem provers
(packages mona, coq) and there are certainly simulation tools for
physics, neural nets, biology, chemics, etc. (though I'm not aware
of any actual packages in debian).
>
> I recently took over task-science. Below is the current draft -- I'd welcome
> comments and suggestions about what to include or exclude. I removed some
> packages which were IMHO too esoteric, or which were libraries only (though
> I might one day place them back into a new `task-science-dev') and added a
> few others. While I used Avery's popularity-contest pages as a guide of what
> is actually being used, I recognise that such a selection will always be
> subjective. Any feedback?
>
> Thanks, Dirk
>
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> new debian package, version 2.0.
> size 2606 bytes: control archive= 709 bytes.
> 570 bytes, 13 lines control
> 273 bytes, 8 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
> 202 bytes, 6 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
> Package: task-science
> Version: 0.3
> Section: science
> Priority: optional
> Architecture: all
> Depends: gnuplot, grace, pdl, octave2.0 | octave2.1, plotutils, r-base, yorick
> Installed-Size: 11
> Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
> Description: Packages for numerical computing, data analysis and visualization
> The task-science meta-package contains dependencies on packages which are
> suitable for scientific work. Under a fairly loose definition of
> 'scientific', this includes numerical analysis and computing, statistical
> data analysis as well as visualization.
>
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