Hello: On 10/14/2011 01:41 AM, Stuart Mumford wrote: > Hello, > > >Please see the f16 comps file [1] > >for all the packages which are installed as mandatory in the > >@engineering-and-scientific group. > > Ok, excellent I wondered where that full list was hiding. > > >Thanks for your suggestions. Funny, I think I missed 'spyder' > > Definitely include spyder, think it is the best DE for scientific > software I have used (miles above Eclipse in the form of the IDL DE) Hmm. Will do that in the next KS file. Thanks! > > I have thought of another couple of packages that I use, both of which > are flagged as optional in the @engineering-and-scientific group, does > this mean they get installed? > > pybibliographer (a BibTeX editor) > Asymptote (a graphing language that integrates with LaTeX) No, only the packages marked as mandatory get installed. But, I can patch the comps file to modify them to mandatory and hence will be installed. > > > Do you mean to say, that you would like to install just the packages > which are needed for running IDL? > > That is exactly what I meant, it took me about 1 hour to dig myself out > of IDL 7 dependency hell when I needed to install it. I posted up the > list of dependencies and how I worked them out on my blog. > http://goo.gl/6a7jM <http://goo.gl/6a7jM%20> > > > its something which could be definitely looked into. > > It's not a huge number of packages, although a lot of 32bit versions of > already install 64bit packages were needed. Could some kind of > "meta-package" be created to allow it to be easily installed if needed? As far as I know, Fedora's "package groups" try to address such a concern. I might be completely off track here though. But, please discuss this issue on the packaging list, if you are interested to create such a meta-package or equivalent. This is actually a very interesting line of thought.. > > > Also, how do you find, GNU Data language [1]? > > Ohhhhh, never seen that before!! That might be worth putting in? > Is there a GUI for it? (like the IDL DE) Not sure..I have to explore it..:) > > > I will try and see if keeping GNOME3 based spin is possible or not. > > What about an option on install? Or would that cause issues with the iso > size? As of now, we are just at about 2.2 G, so we have enough size (DVD size total) to include both DEs. I will have to explore this option with the spins SIG. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Please keep them coming. Best, -Amit > > Stuart > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > scitech mailing list > scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
