Re: History behind pkgsrc 'biology' category

2016-02-08 Thread Rene Hexel
> On 6 Feb 2016, at 11:19 PM, matthew sporleder wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: >> >> Again, not complaining. I think it's quirky and cool. I'm just curious. > > […] > If you recall, the late 90's and early 2000's saw

Re: History behind pkgsrc 'biology' category

2016-02-07 Thread Aleksej Saushev
Hello! Swift Griggs writes: > I am curious (only curious - this is not a complaint): Does > anyone know why there ended up being a pretty well-fleshed-out > 'biology' section in pkgsrc but there isn't "chemistry", > "physics", "engineering" etc... > > Was there some

Re: History behind pkgsrc 'biology' category

2016-02-06 Thread matthew sporleder
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Swift Griggs wrote: > > I am curious (only curious - this is not a complaint): Does anyone know why > there ended up being a pretty well-fleshed-out 'biology' section in pkgsrc > but there isn't "chemistry", "physics", "engineering" etc... >

History behind pkgsrc 'biology' category

2016-02-05 Thread Swift Griggs
I am curious (only curious - this is not a complaint): Does anyone know why there ended up being a pretty well-fleshed-out 'biology' section in pkgsrc but there isn't "chemistry", "physics", "engineering" etc... Was there some prodigious pkgsrc maintainer/hacker who was a biologist or is it