Re: [gentoo-science] New category proposal - sci-vis

["M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net>]

Apparently it's more than a "proposal" ... tonight's "emerge --sync" 
moved some packages, breaking some ebuilds in the process. I haven't dug 
into it enough to file a bug yet, though.

Markus Dittrich wrote:
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> On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
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>> Now the question is, can we put less general-purpose visualization
>> programs there? For example, molecular graphics programs.
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> I would tend to say yes, since molecular graphics programs can vizualize
> everything from small molecules to large biomolecular systems.
> Hence, I would have a hard time deciding if, e.g. VMD should
> be sci-biology or sci-chemistry, whereas sci-visualization seems
> natural. I would really like to hear opinions before I commit
> VMD to portage. 
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> Thanks,
> Markus
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> Markus Dittrich (markusle)
> Gentoo Linux Developer
> Scientific applications
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