On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:15:43AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Michael Hanke wrote: > >> I think that it would be useful to have such a package, as the >> interesting candidate packages are a bit scattered around. Neuroscience >> research includes conducting psycho(logical,physical) experiments >> (pyepl), brain-imaging related work (med-imaging, although not >> necessarily targeting medical topics), including analysis and >> visualization (science-imageanalysis, -numericalcomputation), but also >> the statistical analysis of behavioral data (science-statistics). As >> large parts of the neurosciences are closely-related to psychology it >> could also absorb packages not even listed in any task right now (e.g. >> praat). >> ... >> I'd volunteer to take care of such a meta-package, if that is necessary >> at all, or helps to establish such. > > I'm in favour of this idea. As I explained here several times in the past > I see Debian Science as a pool of potentialy separate Blends dealing with > and specific science which might sit here until there is enough interest > and man power to form a stand-alone team. In some fields this might happen > in others this might never happen and they might sit under the Debian > Science umbrella for ever - that's fine and that's definitely better than > if there would be no support of the scientists in this field at all. > > So finally the idea is to provide a structured access to people working > in a specific field and your users in the field of neuroscience will be > very happy if you assemble a set of packages that will be useful for > their day to day work. Is there anything against making users happy? > > There might be an arguing that there are other specific applied sciences > which might "deserve" their own task which ends up in a metapackage. > Well, yes, there definitely are - but the question is always: Who is > willing to do the work to assemble a reasonable list of packages (if > there are such packages inside Debian at all). IMHO this is the cruxial > point here. So if you are willing to do this - just go for it. > (To enable you injecting the tasks file I just added you to the > Debian Pure Blends project on alioth.)
Thanks a lot! I'll dig myself through the docs to see how it works. Cheers, Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/hanke ICQ: 48230050 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
