Re: categories of science: math biology geography ? and?

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 7/28/22 14:01, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 12:08:49PM -0500, Jason Bacon wrote:
>   > 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.
>
> scipy, like numpy, is numerics, and it would make some sense to
> separate those from math. It would also make a clear place to put
> machine learning toolkits, which currently I think are mostly getting
> dumped in devel.
>
> (That is, if we're going to be making new categories, I kind of think
> "numerics" would be a good one to add.)
>
> I also kind of feel like "sciences" would be a better name than
> "science", but that gets into TEAL WITH CREAM ACCEConnection closed by
> foreign host.

When adding new categories, I'd be inclined to fall in line with other
package managers that already have a similar one, just to avoid minor
annoyances for pkgsrc users coming from other platforms.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/
https://www.freshports.org/categories.php