I agree with blends for general scientific toolset, that said, even I would hesitate to install a blend containing all those packages.
Honestly, with the size of the packages we are talking about, I think it's best just to be specific and let the user pick. Best, On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm simply forward this question to Debian Science. I share Ole's > opinion that it is not sensible to add this umbrella project. We > rather should create dedicated Blends for specific sciences. > > The only thing I could imagine would be to put the following tasks > into some "scientific toolset" install target: > > statistics > tools > typesetting > viewing > workflow > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:07:18AM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> I just committed this. >> >> One additional change: I removed Debian-Science completely here. The >> reason is that I have no idea of a target audience for it: "science" is >> IMO too vague as a special task. To me, it looks still more an umbrella >> for different things. However, if someone wants to have it there, has a >> good idea of who shall use a default installation, and also maintains >> the list of tasks to be installed by default, we can easily revert this. >> >> Best regards >> >> Ole >> >> Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes: >> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 06:31:50PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> >> We *could* still put the Blends names there as well: >> > >> > +1 >> > >> >> [ ] Special tasks >> >> [ ] ... astronomy (Debian Astro) >> >> [ ] ... chemistry (DebiChem) >> >> [ ] ... education (Debian Edu) >> >> [ ] ... life sciences and medicine (DebianMed) >> > >> > Please add a space here -> Debian Med >> > >> >> [ ] ... geographical information systems (Debian GIS) >> >> [ ] ... amateur radio (Hamradio) >> >> [ ] ... gaming and fun (Debian Games) >> >> [ ] ... multimedia (DebianMultimedia) >> > >> > No idea how Debian Multimedia feels about space ... >> > >> >> [ ] ... for kids (Debian Junior) >> >> >> >> so that people explicitely interested in a blend could find it; however >> >> I am not sure if this would not be again confusing. >> > >> > I personally like it. >> > >> >> I would then however input for the not-so-simple blends: >> >> >> >> Debian Accessibility, Debian EzGo >> > >> > Debian Accessibility does not create metapackages and thus it probably >> > makes no sense here. >> > >> > EzGo developers are in CC. >> > >> >> and for those who are not on the list yet as well :-) >> >> >> >> We should also do an opt-in at some point; I don't want to force any >> >> Blend to appear in the installer. >> > >> > +1 >> > >> > Kind regards >> > >> > Andreas. >> >> > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
