On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stefan Husmann <stefan-husm...@t-online.de> wrote: > Am 09.06.2010 20:53, schrieb Thomas Dziedzic: >> >> My main goals initially are maintaining [community] packages which >> includes fixing bugs in those packages, and maintaining the integrity >> of the AUR, for instance, looking over PKGBUILDs submitted to the AUR >> and responding to comments made in aur-general. >> >> I'm mainly interested in science/math/unix-philosophy packages. >> Although there aren't many of those that are orphans in the community >> repos right now. I could also maintain other orphans, most notably the >> outdated ones, in community for some time just to update and tidy them >> up. >> >> I am not necessarily that interested in developing the web site, >> although if there are any outstanding problems I can certainly take a >> look at the problems. >> >> P.S. If you think grass is bad, you should see sage-mathematics!!! :P >> > well, sage-mathematics is not a package, it is a distribution (btw, do you > know scilab?). Some years ago I asked on this list if it should go to > community, and the short discussion ended in the conclusion, that it > should not. But I am fine with disussing it again. > > I wish you good luck for your application. > > Stefan >
I guess you could call it a distribution which puts a lot of tools under a common interface because that's basically what it is. Afaik, the programs that come with it are isolated to the package. Too bad it wont make it to community then, since I was hoping to spare a lot of compilation time for people :P With regard to scilab, I haven't used it myself, but it certainly looks interesting. I'll take a look at it later today.
