[gentoo-dev] app-sci is 180, split in order?

[George Shapovalov]

Hi guys.

I tried to count how many packages we already have in sci for that previous 
message (recruiting new devs) and realized we are at 180 solely in app-sci 
already. So, should we split this? I envision something along these lines:

sci-stat    statistics, data analysis
sci-simu    simulations, MD, Monte Carlo, etc.
sci-hpc     high performance computing, clustering
sci-libs    well, libs essentially
sci-misc    everything else

possible other if they warrant a separate category
sci-linalg    linear algebra packages, kind of covered by sci-libs for most
sci-symbolic  symbolic algebra stuff, again, does not seem to be that many of 
these so that hey wouldn't fit into sci-misc..

Some stuff may be moved from elsewhere. For example dev-lang/R may be better 
suited for sci-stat, as this is essentially data-analysis package (I know 
people look for it under app-sci when I tell them there is such a thing. And, 
btw, search does not quite work in that particular case, its just one latter 
which is also uppercase :)).

Would that be all or did I forget something? 5 categories would give us 35-40 
packages per cat, so there is even some room for expansion. There are ~100 
more packages fresh sitting in bugzilla, but I think we will only be able to 
realistically deal with them after we get some more devs onto sci herd (see 
my other todays message to gentoo-science).

George


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