Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc

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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Jim Wise wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Thorsten Frueauf wrote:
> 
> >> > Log Message:
> >> > add ted-2.5
> >> > X11 based WordPad-like word processor.
> >> 
> >> Can this be moved to pkgsrc/textproc, please?
> >
> >Why? Lyx is in print too. I see no word processors in texproc, but then
> >I could not describe the difference between print and textproc anyway.
> 
> LyX is in print because of it's close integration with LaTeX.  There's
> certainly room to argue that LyX should be in `editors', or even in a
> new `office' category, as has been suggested in the past (something I
> personally favor, for what very little it's worth), but I'm not sure new
> word processors should really go in `print'...


so do we have any conclusions?  

The descriptions for the catergories in question are:

editors: Editors
   - seems to contain programs like emacs, pico, vi, and similar editors. 
     primarily text editors, but also has a binary editor or two.

print: Desktop publishing.
   - has many programs that I wouldn't have called desktop publishing, but
     more printer oriented like ghostscript, ghostview, enscript,
     magicfilter, etc.  But this is where Lyx and LaTex are.

textproc: Text processing utilities (does not include desktop publishing).
   - has various text processing things, but nothing that looks like a
     word processor to me.  in fact nothing that looks even like a text
     editor.


actually, the closest we have to ted in the package system is Pathetic
Writer which is part of siag which is in 'misc' (which doesn't seem like
such a good place).

Given all this I think I'm in favor of what Jim said which is make an
'office' catergory for such things as word processors and spread sheets.

What do you guys think? 

-Dan