Hello Stuart: Sorry for the delay in replying. Replies inline. On 10/21/2011 09:37 PM, Stuart Mumford wrote: > Hello, > > >Regarding the first question: I think the SciTech SIG list (this one) is > >the best place. You might want to kickstart a new thread with your > >proposal and initial thoughts. > > I will start working on this next week, having a bit of a hectic end to > this week as I am away this weekend and my supervisor is back on Monday!! > > With regards to the meta-package idea the response I got from the > packaging list is as follows: > > " > So long as they meet our licensing guidelines, there's nothing preventing > including of the required packages. Since IDL is proprietary, I don't > think a meta-package in Fedora is appropriate, but you could distribute > this yourself for your use and that of others. > " > > I think for the inclusion of ~10 packages in the distro it would make > the installation of a commonly used piece of software much easier. I > shall probably look into creating and maintaining a rpm file with all > the deps in on my website. It will definitely be a useful contribution. All the best. > > > I have begun to put together all the packages that Fedora Scientific > Spin ships with here [1]. Kindly let me know if you see any stark omissions. > > The only thing I have thought of is under data visualisation is the > Enthought "mayavi" package. Which is a really good 3D data visualisation > package built on python. Included both in the latest kickstart which is now in the F-16 kickstarts repository [1], so nightly builds will soon be available. (Thanks all for your comments and suggestions)! > > Finally, Is there any more news on including both KDE and GNOME in the > spin, and also how would we go about customising the installer to select > one or the other, and later potentially the package categories? Hmm..so I checked with the Spins SIG and the consensus was that its a little too late to include both for F-16 as it will also need additional testing. So, I will give it a shot for the next release. May be have a separate GNOME based spin.. > > Stuart > > P.S. Are you still looking for suggestions of wallpapers to include? I guess its a little too late for this release to be officially included. But, if you get the time to get one or two ready, I shall try to discuss it with the websites team to put them as download-ables from the spins page. [1] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=tree Thanks a lot. -Amit -- http://echorand.me _______________________________________________ scitech mailing list scitech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/scitech
