Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure
Le Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:47:00PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit :
> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 07:36:49PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > The packages ncbi-tools-bin and ncbi-tools-x11 have many many menu
> > entries. Do you think that it would make sense to create a "NCBI"
> > subsection in the Science section?
>
> Note that this is beyond the scope of the Debian menu structure, since
> the Debian menu sub-policy allows packages to use new third-level
> sections for private purpose.
>
> The criterion to add a new (unofficial) section is whether:
> 1. that will help users find the softwares.
> 2. the new section will almost never be with exactly one or two entries
> and often with at least five entries when it is not empty.
>
> Here criterium 2 is fulfilled easily: there will be 0 or >=8 entries,
>
> For criterium 1. I think "NCBI" is far too cryptic. What does that mean
> anyway ?
Hi,
Sorry for my ignorance, I overlooked the relevant part of the
sub-policy.
NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). Think about the Google for biological
research.
My reasonning was that if people install the packages ncbi-tools-*, they
necessarly know what the NCBI is. These packages are not part of complex
dependancies networks:
sorbet【debian】$ apt-cache rdepends ncbi-tools-bin
ncbi-tools-bin
Reverse Depends:
perlprimer
perlprimer
ncbi-tools6
ncbi-tools-x11
ncbi-data
libncbi6
blast2
sorbet【debian】$ apt-cache rdepends ncbi-tools-x11
ncbi-tools-x11
Reverse Depends:
vibrant6
ncbi-tools-bin
libncbi6
blast2
Being a molecular biologist, I can certify that a user of any of those
packages would know what the NCBI is.
The only case where I guess that people would be exposed to the name
without knowing it is in the live distributions with pre-installed
scientific programs, such as Bio-Knoppix or Quantian, or if they
mass-install packages sharing some tags.
Bonne journée,
--
Charles
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