Re: Installing the whole set of scientific packages
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, [utf-8] Damián Viano wrote:
- debian-science
- debian-science-bio
- debian-science-math
- debian-science-physics
- debian-science-chem
What do others think? Am I missing something? Should we s/science// from
the second level packages? s/debian// ?
I would vote for leaving out "debian-" in front of the package names.
Wouldn't such classification
make packages like scipy hard to include?
I think we have also
- science-geo
- science-astro
Moreover I would add
*-dev
packages. At least in Debian-Med we work with med-bio and med-bio-dev
because you often have some development related packages that are not
really needed to just use the applications.
Moreover I think we have some inter-science requzirements, like
- science-plotting
- science-statistics
or something like that.
Should TeX packages be included in any category, which?
This falls into the same league like plotting. We might add a
- science-typesetting
or something like that.
(keep in mind that tex have his own
section, so creating another category/meta-package would be redundant if
you ask me)
Yes, I'm unsure whether this makes sense. Perhaps adding a
Recommends: tex
into the general debian-science package. BTW, the recommends and suggests
options make clear why the meta packages approach is more powerfull than
tasksel.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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