[Quantian-announce] Re: New Quantian release 0.5.9.3 available

[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas]

Hi and thanks for this new release,

El mar, 03-08-2004 a las 03:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel escribió:
[...]
> 
> Executive Summary for a quick overview: 
> =========================
===============
>   Quantian 0.5.9.3 adds over 360 GNU R packages from the CRAN and
>   BioConductor archives, the GNU geda electronics design software, an =
almost
>   complete debian-med suite, the complete scalapack development suite,
>   atlas3 and lam development packages, fancy GL screensavers, lots of
>   recommended documentation packages as well as a general update of ov=
er 300
>   Debian packages bringing the size of the iso to over 1.5gb correspon=
ding
>   to 4.4gb uncompressed.
> 
> 
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>         (would Zope make sense for Quantian -- comments welcome!)
>    

I think that diferent packages make sense for diferent people in the
context of cuantitative analysis. 4.4GB is a huge size and maybe nobody
needs everything but everybody needs something. Quantian could get biger
with the time, and for me this is a concern (in fact this is the reason
I choose make my own LiveCD Distro, SciLix). Would be nice to have a
modular Quantian with interchangeable parts. I think that this could be
make using metapackages (a la debian) or minimodules (a la morphix). So
the people interested in scientific computing can choose the
metapackages of quantian that fit their needs and desired size.

Cheers,

Offray