Dear all,

at the "Spring" Hepix conference in Karlsruhe, we had complaints that SL
wasn't "scientific" enough, i.e. was missing several packages.

I had contacted several developers to see whether they could make
+maintain SL versions (RPM+SRPM). Examples where there was some
willingness are OpenScientist and GSL, with ROOT and GEANT4 at least not
against the idea. I also have some things I prepared myself (xmgrace or
(eventually) a recompilable CERNLIB), which currently would go into the
CERN repository but are useful outside.

The question is where to store these - I don't want such things to
become "CERN"-additions, but to be available to the wider community. We
could put them into the CERN "extras" repository and then mirror (I
think Connie already takes things from there), but I think some specific
section on scientificlinux.org would be more appropriate (including
instructions for package authors).

?
Jan