[Debichem-devel] Metapackages for DebiChem?

[Filippo Rusconi]

Greetings scientists,

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 08:01:43PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:32:22AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Moreover you might like to define some more general tasks like viewing
> > data or publishing which might contain some LaTeX styles which are
> > heavily used in Chemistry or some reference manager whatever.  
> 
> Personally, I do not about anything special pertaining chemistry here -
> I saw there is a "Debian Med Typesetting" task, but I wonder what is
> special about it.
> 
> I think it would make more sense to have a few general baseline science
> tasks which cover data manipulation/plotting and typesetting (and
> perhaps others I have missed now) and which can be included by the
> various fields so their users see them.

I do fully agree. Although I do not think that it would be required to
merge the two following tasks:

Scientific data manipulation and plotting

and

Scientific typesetting and bibliographical data management

as I think that these tasks are rather distinct.

Of course, with scientific typesetting we would depend on texlive-*,
which is rather large set of packages. However, providing a complete
(even if heavy) solution to a task is the goal of all the tasks-based
philosophy, no?

Best regards,
                 Filippo

-- 
Filippo Rusconi, PhD - CNRS - public key C78F687C
Author of ``massXpert''     at http://www.massxpert.org
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