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Re: SUMMARY: Intent to package: molecular biology programs



On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 10:13:53PM +1000, Drake Diedrich wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 11:58:02AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > 
> > Any idea of the level of interest necessary to get a Biology section like 
> > there is a Mathematics section? In the mean time, I'll send them to Misc.
> > 
> 
>    A general Science section might be better.  I could imagine the authors
> of various biologically useful chemistry and physics packages objecting to
> being called biologists.  "Mistaking" physicists for chemists is also
> entertaining, but Debian may not want to go there either.

There are some packages in our current "math" section that are useful in
other fields also (spreadsheets, graphics plotting progrmas, ...).
I agree "Science" may be a better name for that section.

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es


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