Re: [gentoo-dev] category sci-geosciences redundant ?

[Stephen P. Becker]

Olivier Fisette wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 March, 2005 09:29 am, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>
>>I just figure I should throw my two cents into this thread.
>>Looking at the packages in app-geosciences, I have a hard time
>>seeing why the category exists at all.
>
>
> I agree. Even if these four packages are appropriate for
> "sci-geosciences" (IMO), four is not enough for a category (by
> far). When I split "app-sci", I wanted to throw all geoscience
> packages in "sci-misc". I added "sci-geosciences" only because
> nerdboy insinsted on having a category for these packages. At
> the time, he said the category would grow quickly since he was
> working on many new packages.
>

Well, I think that there are applications out there that are appropriate 
for an app-geo category, just that they aren't in portage yet.  In fact, 
I've been pondering creating and maintaining ebuilds for a couple of the 
programs I mentioned in my previous email.  I just haven't had the time 
recently to consider it.  I'm barely keeping up with stuff that needs to 
be done in the mips herd as it is.

If nerdboy has lots of packages he is working on that are appropriate, 
then I don't see why the category can't stay.  If those are on hold, 
then as you said, the category should go away.

Steve
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