On Wednesday 09 Jun 2010 at 23:31 Xyne wrote:
Incidentally, I remember that when I compiled it the package duplicated several other packages, e.g. maxima, because it includes other applications internally. Is there any way (yet) to make it use other packages instead? If not, does it fully provide any other packages?
Yes, this is exactly what I was trying to describe in my previous post - thanks for stating it clearer than me. And I think your suggestions are what is needed.
* The idea of an "arch-science" team comes to mind, similar to the "arch-haskell" team, which has done great work in making Arch useful for Haskell users, but I don't actually have any concrete ideas of what that would entail.
I'd be interested in helping out with this :-) Pete.