Re: debian-science and science-* packages
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Thadeu Penna wrote:
while I agree we have many flavours of physicists, I also think
-physics is too broad.
If I could classify physicists that use computers in the least number
of packages I would suggest something like physics-developers (to whom
that number-crunching and compile your own code),
Well, this would be the science-physics-dev package as I proposed.
physics-experimental
(data reduction,etc.) and theoretical (symbolic computation, octave,
etc.).
Well, just propose a complete set of Dependencies if you want this
become happen. Abstract suggestions are hard to verify.
LaTeX and Gnuplot go into physics-common ;)
In how far are LaTeX and GnuPlot not common to mathematics or
Chemestry. You are proposing something for a Debian-Physics project.
Well, in principle you are right that we could really start a
Debian-Physics project (comparable what Debian-Med is doing for
Biology and to DebiChem). The problem is that currently no
physicist was standing up and just doing the work. For the moment
in a general Debian-Science common effort I would not try to
make a real science from making science packages but just
try to get something done. Getting something done is either
commiting to the packaging source in SVN on alioth (ask me if
you need access) or sending patches (for instance to this list)
and ask people with access to apply these. I'm very open for
this approach and will not stop anybody if he wants to do a
more fine grained split than I would prefer for the moment.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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