Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker a écrit : > > > > The debtags available don't seem to have quite enough granularity - > > but perhaps I've missed something - so I've knocked up a very > > incomplete list of sections that packages might drop into. > > Hi Chris, > > If I understand correctly, the Debtags are not granular on puropse. > Better categorisation is supposed to be acheived by combining them.
Yes. Furthermore, there are some programs that cross categories. For example, if one were to propose a tag Field::Crystallography [1], then that tag would be appropriate to molecular visualisation programs that had support for crystals - eg by allowing multiple unit cells etc. > For > instance Field::Chemistry, Use::Viewer instead of > Field::Chemistry:Molecular grahpics. How does that distinguish it from the plotting program kst [2] - which is currently tagged Field::Chemistry and use::viewing Is kst incorrectly tagged? If not, should all the other scientific plotting programs be tagged chemistry too - or does kst have some chemistry specific features? > This said, there are cases where creating subfacets are definitely the > best solution. For instance for biology, we obtained the creation of the > Field::Biology:molecular, :bioinformatics and :structural subfacets. As well as * biology::emboss: EMBOSS Packages related to the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite. * biology::format:aln: Clustal/ALN Used in multiple alignment of biological sequences. * biology::format:fasta: Nexus Popular format for phylogenetic trees. * biology::nuceleic-acids: Nucleic Acids Software that works with sequences of nucleic acids: DNA, RNA but also non-natural nucleic acids such as PNA or LNA. * biology::peptidic: Proteins Software that works with sequences of aminoacids: peptides and proteins. Can someone explain the rationale for having both field::biology and biology::*. Chris [1] I do wonder about a field::cystallography - to encompas packages for real and reciprocal space study (X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction) of crystalline materials. [2] kst: "A KDE application used for displaying scientific data This is a metapackage for kst which installs all of the relevant packages. kst is a program for examining data streams which can plot x-y plots, power spectra, histograms and equations (including equations of data streams). It can also be used to examine data in files which are being updated as data is being logged, in which case it can act as a plotter for a chart recorder. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]