Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost> writes:
> Math is the best category we have for scipy, but I think science would
> be a better fit, since it's not 100% math and all the math in it is
> scientific in nature, not, e.g. theoretical math, business math, math
> education, ... This would help unclutter the math category, which is
> huge in part because it's sometimes used as a catch-all.
I don't see it that way but that's ok anyway, and it's moot until we
arrive at moving being reasonable.
math only has 493. That's really not that many. Current bogus stats,
just ls|wc -l, wrongfully counting CVS directory and Makefile:
archivers 156
audio 530
benchmarks 57
biology 75
bootstrap 26
cad 77
chat 156
comms 95
converters 160
cross 83
databases 524
devel 3329
distfiles 4917
doc 40
editors 197
emulators 418
filesystems 50
finance 120
fonts 892
games 482
geography 112
graphics 851
ham 58
inputmethod 169
joyent 268
lang 337
licenses 245
mail 410
math 493
mbone 14
meta-pkgs 103
misc 403
mk 104
multimedia 222
net 1042
news 29
packages 43
parallel 32
pkgtools 79
print 1774
regress 25
security 654
shells 47
sysutils 919
templates 8
textproc 1392
time 269
wip 6120
wm 117
www 1093
x11 711
> No, I'm not suggesting moving everything from biology. I'm just saying
> that a few packages in that category might be better classified under
> science or chemistry.
ok
> I'm not a proponent of creating a lot of specific scientific categories.
> There are too many disciplines and subdisciplines and most would have
> very few packages. Maybe chemistry and physics could be justified,
> since there is a lot of software for these fields and a more general
> science category has the potential to become very large. FreeBSD has
> astro, which I think could be rolled into physics if such a category
> existed.
>
> Counts for FreeBSD ports in science-related categories:
>
> astro 136
> biology 227
> cad 142
> math 1140
> science 426
> Total 2071
So that seems good enough to convince me that science is reasonable.
I observe that nobody has spoken out against it.
<pmc>I don't think we have any real rules about new categories, other
than discuss first, and I think that's happened.</>
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