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From: rmiya@cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp
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Subject: ports/8694: Recommend to change category name: biology -> chemistry or etc.
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>Number:         8694
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Recommend to change category name: biology -> chemistry or etc.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 15 05:20:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ryo MIYAMOTO
>Organization:
Dpt. of Materials Sci. & Tech., Hirosaki Univ.
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE
>Environment:
FreeBSD scepter.sci.hirosaki-u.ac.jp 2.2.2-RELEASE 
FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Sep  1 18:09:23 JST 1997     
rmiya@scepter.sci.hirosaki-u.ac.jp:/usr/src/sys/compile/SCEPTER  i386
>Description:
Of course, I know that `biology' include wide areas, like those 
from biochemistry to zoology. However, most of applications 
registered in ports/biology are connected to the field of 
molecular science, the academic field like that is usually called as 
`chemistry'. Peoples who are interested in the molecular sciense 
are hard to imagin that the category `biology' contains `chemistry'. 

Even DNAs, proteins, and sugars are well known as biological materials, 
more primitive molecules and other kind of ones can also be treated by 
the programs listed in ports/biology. Then, I recommend to change 
the category name of `biology' to more basic/fundamental name 
or interdisciplinary name as one of the followings:
  chemistry, biochemistry, biology-chemistry.

If it will not, the applications in computational chemistry, 
such as molecular orbital calculations, etc., will be submitted 
in *new* category of `chemistry'. 

I'm disappointed to split the field nearby, and to be confusing in 
category of packages/ports.

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