Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:42:21 -0459 (CDT) From: "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.bga.com> To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Cc: asami@freebsd.org, sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new category: astro Message-ID: <199609181742.MAA09695@utgard.bga.com> In-Reply-To: <9609181713.AA00221@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Sep 18, 96 06:13:10 pm
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According to Jean-Marc Zucconi:
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> >>>>> Satoshi Asami writes:
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> > * I'd further separate the astrology & astronomy stuff, since one's a science
> > * and the other, welllll......
If sociology can be a science, anything can.
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> > I thought about that too (mind you, I don't care about astrology at
> > all, I even objected astrolog joining the now-defunct "utililities"
> > category :), but I thought there probably won't be enough ports there
> > to warrant a new category if we limit it to the science of astronomy
> > only. (If we want to include xasteroid, we sure can't exclude
> > astrolog....)
>
> So exclude xasteroid AND astrolog, but include xephem :-)
>
> > Satoshi
Then, remove stars. It is just an X demo with no real relationship to
space at all. At least astrolog does the math right.
I wasn't very fond of the idea of grouping according to subject matter. The
rest of the ports are divided by utility. xearth, xphoon, xsnow, xlock, stars,
xscreensaver, these are backgrounds/screensavers. Add a screensaver directory.
(If stars isn't, then it is like xtacy, screensaver stuff in the foreground.)
Ideally, we would have sorted indices according to different criteria. I
won't hold my breath, though.
Boyd
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> Jean-Marc
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