Hi Ole, On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 12:23:58PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > Filippo Rusconi <lopi...@debian.org> writes: > > Also, when I installed debian-science and debichem last time, the process > > downloaded such an amount of software that it almost filled my disk (which > > I was > > not suspecting). Maybe, a rough indication of the used disk space in front > > of > > each blend might be useful, in this respect. > > I would not include debian-science to the blends listed in the > installer: it is more an umbrella to organize the packages then a useful > selection of software. The software selection is also inconsitent: it > only contains software that is not maintained by a more specialized > blend (like debichem). > > So, there is probably no real use case to install Debian Science in its > current form (unless someone takes the work to kurate a "Generic Debian > Science Workstation" or so).
True. There might be some general use in may be the following tasks: https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/dataacquisition https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/distributedcomputing https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/statistics https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/typesetting https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/viewing (or even a subset of these). I'm not very keen on having these but may be this could be a topic to discuss. > On our last attempt, we had an opt-in for the blends to be in the > installer; I would propose the same now as well. Definitely Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
