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Date:      Sat, 8 May 1999 00:15:07 +0600 (ESS)
From:      Andrey Zakhvatov <andy@cgu.chel.su>
To:        sprice@hiwaay.net (Steve Price)
Cc:        kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/deskutils/genius - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <199905071815.AAA23445@mail.cgu.chel.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905061841210.8558-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> from Steve Price at "May 6, 99 06:49:59 pm"

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Hello,

> bsd[~]$ cat /usr/ports/deskutils/pkg/COMMENT
> Things that used to be on the desktop before computers were invented.
> 
> I'd say a calculator fits that description. :)  Though it
> 
> bsd[~]$ cat /usr/ports/math/pkg/COMMENT
> Mathematics.
> 
> makes me think of things like blas and friends.  I'd be
> happy to move it to math or move all the ones from math
> to deskutils.  Doesn't matter much to me, though deskutils
> seemed a better place until your message. :-)

  I vote to move calc things to deskutils and leave math
category for things like linear algebra, calculus and other
tools for _real_math_ for real mathematicians and not for accounting.
  Math for mathematicians, deskutils for joe users.

  Sincerely yours, Andy.


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