On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:10:36AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:47:00PM +0200, Bill Allombert a écrit : > > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 07:36:49PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > The packages ncbi-tools-bin and ncbi-tools-x11 have many many menu > > > entries. Do you think that it would make sense to create a "NCBI" > > > subsection in the Science section? > > > > Note that this is beyond the scope of the Debian menu structure, since > > the Debian menu sub-policy allows packages to use new third-level > > sections for private purpose. > > > > The criterion to add a new (unofficial) section is whether: > > 1. that will help users find the softwares. > > 2. the new section will almost never be with exactly one or two entries > > and often with at least five entries when it is not empty. > > > > Here criterium 2 is fulfilled easily: there will be 0 or >=8 entries, > > > > For criterium 1. I think "NCBI" is far too cryptic. What does that mean > > anyway ? > > Hi, > > NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information > (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). Think about the Google for biological > research. > > My reasonning was that if people install the packages ncbi-tools-*, they > necessarly know what the NCBI is. These packages are not part of complex > dependancies networks:
I don't think we should use organisation name for section. Sections are supposed to relate to the function of the software. So maybe there is a common function theses entries uniquely perform. In the negative I would just let them in Science. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
