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From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] New category proposal - sci-vis
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:36:31
Message-Id: 43DDB3C2.7060206@cesmail.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] New category proposal - sci-vis by Markus Dittrich
1 Apparently it's more than a "proposal" ... tonight's "emerge --sync"
2 moved some packages, breaking some ebuilds in the process. I haven't dug
3 into it enough to file a bug yet, though.
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5 Markus Dittrich wrote:
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9 > On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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11 >> Now the question is, can we put less general-purpose visualization
12 >> programs there? For example, molecular graphics programs.
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16 > I would tend to say yes, since molecular graphics programs can vizualize
17 > everything from small molecules to large biomolecular systems.
18 > Hence, I would have a hard time deciding if, e.g. VMD should
19 > be sci-biology or sci-chemistry, whereas sci-visualization seems
20 > natural. I would really like to hear opinions before I commit
21 > VMD to portage.
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23 > Thanks,
24 > Markus
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29 > Markus Dittrich (markusle)
30 > Gentoo Linux Developer
31 > Scientific applications
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42 M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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