[Quantian-general] Additional packages to Quantian

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 29 June 2006 at 23:46, Charles Plessy wrote:
| Le Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:33:47AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| > 
| > But the tags for Bio mean more to you than they mean to me, which is why you
| > could potentially make a more informed selection than a naive reading of the
| > package browser.  
| > 
| > Ultimately the goal cannot be to include "everything". Hence some filtering
| > will be needed, and that does not happen at the Debian level.
| 
| I can of course help for the filtering for the biology. How to organise
| this? How do you manage your package list? 

Fairly low-tech: text file with notes from which I copy commands. Lists of
apt-get'able packages is a fair start.

| Do you also include unofficial packages?

Yes. I prefer to stick with Debian packages, but I have been persuaded in the
past. See the contents listings for some details.

Regards, Dirk

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