Packages I'm no longer interested in:

media-gfx/fotoxx
sci-libs/arprec
sci-libs/mathgl
sci-libs/qd
sci-mathematics/genius
sci-mathematics/gsl-shell
sci-mathematics/mathmod
sci-mathematics/reduce

fotoxx is now maintainer-needed. If anybody is interested, welcome. The upstream releases very often, a bump is needed.

All the other packages are now maintained by sci or sci-mathematics projects. If anybody is interested, please add yoursels as a maintainer. Maybe, gsl-shell and mathmod can be last-rited if nowbody takes them - I experimented with them a little but did not find them useful.

reduce is a very old version, hard-masked, non-working. reduce is a powerful and efficient CAS comparable with maxima. I use it quite often, but I compile new versions by hand, outside portage. The build system is terrible. If somebody could bump it to a modern version (an essential rewrite of the ebuild is needed), it would be excellent. Otherwise, we'll have to remove it :-(

One more appeal to the community. wxmaxima is used by many maxima users. I was not its formal maintainer, but in the past I did much work bumping it. The version in the tree is old (though working). The bump is urgently needed. The upstream has switched to cmake, and a nearly complete rewrite of the ebuild is needed.

Andrey Grozin

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