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On Wednesday, 16 March, 2005 09:17 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> is it just me or does it seem redundant to have 'sciences' at the end of a |
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> sci-* category ? wouldnt it make more sense as just 'sci-geo' ? |
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> -mike |
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> gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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This was discussed on gentoo-science just before I created the categories and |
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moved the packages. I decided to use full names for the sake of clarity, |
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since some of the acronyms were not obvious and I wanted to be consistent for |
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all sci-* categories. "sci-geo" is a good example. Does it mean geology or |
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geography, does it include meteorology? "sci-geosciences" obviously includes |
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all these. I agree its redundant, but I could not find anything better. |
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"sci-ee" is another. While some people seemed to think ee is a really obvious |
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abbreviation, I had no idea what it meant and prefered "sci-electronics". |
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After GLEP 34 is implemented, descriptions will be available for the |
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categories so clear category names will be a bit less important. If you want |
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all packages in sci-* moved again, though, I think you will have to do it |
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yourself. And unless epkgmove has improved since I last used it, this will be |
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boring and error prone. :( |
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Regards, |
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Olivier Fisette (ribosome) |
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