M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> I have some ideas for breaking up the larger chunks. For example,
> "sci-mathematics" could be broken into symbolic and numeric, the latter
> picking up "blas-atlas" and "lapack-atlas". I'd move everything from
> sci-libs into its functional area ... blas-atlas and lapack-atlas to
> math/numeric, , the graphics libraries to sci-visualization, etc.

[Removed gentoo-dev from CC]

The point of splitting off libs into separate categories is so that
categories are easier to browse for end-user applications without
getting drowned in random libraries and other dependencies. This is very
useful to me.

Thanks,
Donnie