Re: Renaming 'math' section 'science'
On 23-Sep-1998, John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.Arizona.EDU> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> hamish>To complicate things further, octave is certainly useful in
> hamish>electronic engineering work (eg signal processing). latex useful
> hamish>in computer science, etc.
>
> How about: Put packages into some hierarchy (maybe even just
> flat). Have a keyword-like list of sections, and utilities to list all
E.g. the package pool. Flat but with directories for first and
second letters of the package name.
> packages that satisfy a certain keyword. So gnuplot is perhaps in math,
> graphics , and science . And perhaps also in math/plotting . This could
> make it easier. Isn't this what RH does ? I think they have a flat
> archive and keywords. We really need this . What are my choices for
> plotting programs, for web browsers ? Who knows at this point ?
> I guess the way to implements it is is to keep the current
> hierarchy, but add a keyword to the control file, and gradually change
> tools to use these logical sections , rather than physical sections. A
> wholesale migration to a new system would be a mess.
You can build the keyword sections on top of the current system without
even changing the physical sections.
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