Re: Blends naming in the Debian installer
I agree with blends for general scientific toolset, that said, even I
would hesitate to install a blend containing all those packages.
Honestly, with the size of the packages we are talking about, I think
it's best just to be specific and let the user pick.
Best,
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm simply forward this question to Debian Science. I share Ole's
> opinion that it is not sensible to add this umbrella project. We
> rather should create dedicated Blends for specific sciences.
>
> The only thing I could imagine would be to put the following tasks
> into some "scientific toolset" install target:
>
> statistics
> tools
> typesetting
> viewing
> workflow
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:07:18AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> I just committed this.
>>
>> One additional change: I removed Debian-Science completely here. The
>> reason is that I have no idea of a target audience for it: "science" is
>> IMO too vague as a special task. To me, it looks still more an umbrella
>> for different things. However, if someone wants to have it there, has a
>> good idea of who shall use a default installation, and also maintains
>> the list of tasks to be installed by default, we can easily revert this.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Ole
>>
>> Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:
>> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 06:31:50PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote:
>> >> We *could* still put the Blends names there as well:
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> >> [ ] Special tasks
>> >> [ ] ... astronomy (Debian Astro)
>> >> [ ] ... chemistry (DebiChem)
>> >> [ ] ... education (Debian Edu)
>> >> [ ] ... life sciences and medicine (DebianMed)
>> >
>> > Please add a space here -> Debian Med
>> >
>> >> [ ] ... geographical information systems (Debian GIS)
>> >> [ ] ... amateur radio (Hamradio)
>> >> [ ] ... gaming and fun (Debian Games)
>> >> [ ] ... multimedia (DebianMultimedia)
>> >
>> > No idea how Debian Multimedia feels about space ...
>> >
>> >> [ ] ... for kids (Debian Junior)
>> >>
>> >> so that people explicitely interested in a blend could find it; however
>> >> I am not sure if this would not be again confusing.
>> >
>> > I personally like it.
>> >
>> >> I would then however input for the not-so-simple blends:
>> >>
>> >> Debian Accessibility, Debian EzGo
>> >
>> > Debian Accessibility does not create metapackages and thus it probably
>> > makes no sense here.
>> >
>> > EzGo developers are in CC.
>> >
>> >> and for those who are not on the list yet as well :-)
>> >>
>> >> We should also do an opt-in at some point; I don't want to force any
>> >> Blend to appear in the installer.
>> >
>> > +1
>> >
>> > Kind regards
>> >
>> > Andreas.
>>
>>
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