Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Felipe Figueiredo wrote: > > > Am I missing something, or packages can't be in more than one category/task > > in > > this system? > > There is no reason thich prevents having a package in several tasks. > Installing > a metapackage for a task should give you a complete working environment to > work on the specific task.
So the purpose of the meta package is to list packages that a physicist will use, and not to classify physics packages. That makes sense - and I'd previously missed that. I can then ask my sysadmin to install the physics metapackge safe in the knowledge that I'll have most of what I need. > So if one package is useful in more than one task > it has to be listed in all of them. Just note that there are such generic > tasks like viewing and typesetting. You will probably these in addition to > the science task and if it turns out that we need another generic task than > we might add this. > Ok. For the moment then, I think it would be useful to add Here is a diff to add octave,matplotlib(+scipy and ipython) and pdl to the physics task. I haven't added scilab as it is in non-free (though perhaps it should be added). diff --git a/physics b/physics index 67ac2b6..fb4e2a5 100644 --- a/physics +++ b/physics @@ -19,6 +19,17 @@ Depends: horae, ifeffit, sixpack Depends: tessa | tessa-mpi +Depends: octave | octave3.0 +Why: numerical programming environment similar to Matlab + +Depends: octaviz + +Depends: python-matplotlib, python-scipy, ipython +Why: numerical programming environment similar to Matlab + +Depends: pdl +Why: numerical programming environment similar to Matlab + Depends: science-electronics Suggests: science-statistics, science-mathematics > > I think if packages could be organized with something > > like "tags" (oh no, one more name), everyone would be more satisfied, and > > the > > packages would be easilly found by users. > > Well, we have DebTags which are fine. http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.html mentions debtag field::physics but doesn't provide a hotlink. Is there a way of doing this (I couldn't work one out)? > DebTags is a great tool and you can > even install packages according to a DebTags specification. When editing > the tasks files DebTags was actually a great help. And you can categorise your favorite packages at http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/. Perhaps I don't understand debtags well enough, but I think it would probably be useful to have more precise tags than field::physics - though I've yet to work out what tags would be appropriate. Chris PS there isn't a field::engineering tag on http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ either - though it is referenced in the engineering metapackage. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
