Re: Bug#361418: Moving the NCBI programs in a subsection of Applications/Science

[ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)]

Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> writes:

> Le Sun, May 14, 2006 at 06:58:32PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :
[...]
>> It means at least one person on the machine knows. The other users
>> will see a cryptic "NCBI" and think "WTF is that?".

Would "Tools from NCBI" be any better?

> One solution could be to separate them in a case-by-case basis in
> categories such as "Sequence Analysis" and "Database querying". Anyway,
> the opinion of the package maintainer is very important.

Thanks, though I'm very much open to suggestions on this point.

> Maybe I should file a wishlist bug with a tentative categorisation?

Feel free.

Meanwhile, it may be worth noting that the programs in the blast2 and
ncbi-tools-bin packages are all non-interactive command-line
applications at heart, but built on top a framework that allows them to
request their options via a single dialog box when invoked suitably[1].
As such, I have given them all menu entries on principle, but could be
convinced to do otherwise.

[1] With NCBI's "Vibrant" GUI library preloaded; the libvibrant6
    package contains a wrapper script that accomplishes this.

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