On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Lisandro [iso-8859-1] Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
Perhaps a metapackage should be done, best if coordinated through this list.
Well, the meta-package technique is supported easily through cdd-dev package. Feel free to ask me if ou have trouble implementing scientific meta packages set. I guess the debian-med package might be a reasonable example to suppoet all features, especially because the biological part should be ready.
I understand that it would be _too_ difficult due to the quantity of science-related packages, but from a begginers point of view, it wouldn't be so much a bad idea.
Well, I think *because* of the quantity we need such a collection of scientific related software. Another very reasonable approach is debtagging the scientific packages and use the features of debtags to install scientific packages. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de