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On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 19:09, George Shapovalov wrote: |
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> Some stuff may be moved from elsewhere. For example dev-lang/R may be better |
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> suited for sci-stat, as this is essentially data-analysis package (I know |
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> people look for it under app-sci when I tell them there is such a thing. And, |
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> btw, search does not quite work in that particular case, its just one latter |
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> which is also uppercase :)). |
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> Would that be all or did I forget something? 5 categories would give us 35-40 |
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> packages per cat, so there is even some room for expansion. There are ~100 |
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> more packages fresh sitting in bugzilla, but I think we will only be able to |
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> realistically deal with them after we get some more devs onto sci herd (see |
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> my other todays message to gentoo-science). |
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> George |
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Well ... I hate to say again, "Debian does it thusly" :). Debian has a |
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"science" and a "math" main category. R is in math, as are many of the |
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packages in "app-sci" -- octave, yacas and maxima, for example. So I |
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would put the "pure math" packages in one group and the scientific |
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applications in another. And yes, I'd move R into the math group and out |
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of the language group, even though it *is* a language. LISP is a |
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language, and all of the LISP interpreters/compilers are in "dev-lisp". |
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By the way, I wish I had the free time to join the "sci" herd. I just |
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have too many other irons in the fire to devote the kind of time to it |
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that it would require. I do spend a fair amount of time testing bleeding |
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edge software, so at least you'll get bug reports and info from upstream |
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mailing lists from me. :) |
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