From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Dec 4 05:12:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA19623 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 05:12:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca34-49.ix.netcom.com [207.93.143.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA19611 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 05:12:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.8/8.6.9) id FAA17225; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 05:08:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 05:08:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199712041308.FAA17225@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: stefan@promo.de CC: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, frankch@waru.life.nthu.edu.tw In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Bethke on Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:55:20 +0100) Subject: Re: ports/5214: New port rasmol From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * How about 'visualization' or, even more generic, 'scientific'? I'm not * sure, but I feel that there might not be that many bio programs; however, * there are probably a lot of visualization tools, and even more scientific * ones. "scientific" is way too generic. We already have "astro" and "math", which I think are two of the best categories in terms of easy separation with others. As for "visualization", I'm sorry but I can't tell what that means. Also, the porter (in private mail) mentioned that he has a lot more biology-related ports waiting in the wings. * The more categories we have, the harder it gets to look for software one * might use to solve a particular problem. Also, introducing many highly * specialized categories ('physics', 'chemistry', ...) will make the list of * categories even longer, and I think it is fairly long already. I disagree. The more highly specialized categories we have, the easier for people to find a port for a specific interest. Having generic categories that overlap each other too much is counter-productive. When's the last time people complained that they can't find xephem in astro or linpack in math? Yet people are always confused about xdvi being in print and xpdf being in graphics. Satoshi