From owner-freebsd-ports Sun May 7 2:21:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE4D37B87C; Sun, 7 May 2000 02:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca7-07.ix.netcom.com [209.109.235.7]) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA04891; Sun, 7 May 2000 05:21:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id CAA28398; Sun, 7 May 2000 02:19:53 -0700 (PDT) To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: category for xdrawchem References: From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 07 May 2000 02:19:38 -0700 In-Reply-To: Mike Nowlin's message of "Sun, 7 May 2000 04:22:20 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 31 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * From: Mike Nowlin (This part from Kris) * > There may be a couple of ports which could be moved from other categories, * > but we certainly don't have many. My concern is when someone does submit * > the first (e.g.) physics port, where does it go? Into an inappropriate * > category like chemistry, or another inappropriate category like misc? Well, misc is never inappropriate for something that doesn't fit in other categories. By definition. :] Anyway, I get your point. I can create "science" if people want it. (We *do* have at least one or two ports to put there, right?) * It occurred to me that "science" or "scientific" might not be the best * name for this directory.... Albeit a bit long, "physicalsciences" or * something like that might be a little more descriptive for the topics on * hand, while "dumbsciences" would have subdirs such as "political", etc. Well, those are usually called "natural sciences" and "social sciences" if you want to get technical. The college where I did my undergrad (the University of Tokyo) had this "everything has to be some kind of science" mentaility, so all classes (other than PE) were either classified in either natural sciences, social sciences or humanities (called "humanity sciences" in Japanese). But I digress. I think we all know what "science" means in general terms. Just like in elementary school. Is that ok? (Hmm, does that mean that mathematics is not science...?) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message