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+#fedora-livedvd-scientific-kde.ks
+# With KDE Desktop
+
+# Fedora Scientific: For researchers in Science and Engineering
+# Fedora-Scientific aims to create a Fedora which has the generic
+# toolset for the researcher
+# Web: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scientific_Spin
+
+# Maintainer: Amit Saha <droidery@gmail.com>
+# FAS username: amitksaha
+
+# Last modified: October 23, 2011.
+
+%include fedora-live-kde.ks
+
+# DVD payload
+part / --size 10000
+
+%packages
+
+# Installing the default/mandatory packages from engineering & scientific
+@engineering-and-scientific
+
+#Devel tools
+
+#Install the mandatory packages from dev-tools and dev-libs
+# C/C++ compiler, gdb, autotools, bison, flex, make, strace..
+@development-tools
+@development-libs
+
+# Misc. related utils
+ddd
+valgrind
+ipython
+
+# Include Java development tools
+@java-development
+
+#fortran compiler
+gcc-gfortran
+
+# GUI for R
+rkward
+
+# GUI for Octave
+qtoctave
+
+# IDEs for the IDE folks
+netbeans
+eclipse
+spyder
+
+#writing & publishing
+emacs
+emacs-color-theme
+vim
+scribus
+scite
+lyx
+kile
+
+#Presentation, Bibliography & Document arrangement 
+#tools
+BibTool
+pdfshuffler
+
+
+# Parallel/Distributed computing libraries/tools
+openmpi
+valgrind-openmpi
+pvm-gui #will install 'pvm' as well
+libgomp
+
+#Version control- a GUI for each as well
+
+# Installing rapidsvn will also install subversion package
+rapidsvn 
+# Install git-gui, will also install git
+git-gui
+# Mercurial
+mercurial
+mercurial-hgk
+
+#Backup Utilities
+backintime-kde
+
+
+#needs to install this specifically because of some conflict between openmpi
+#and emacs (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/153812.html)
+libotf
+
+#root
+root
+root-gui-fitpanel
+root-python
+
+#Multiple jobs/clustering system
+torque
+torque-server
+torque-scheduler
+torque-gui
+torque-libs
+torque-mom
+python-pbs
+
+#Drawing, Picture viewing tools, Visualization tools
+dia
+inkscape
+xzgv
+gimp
+ggobi
+ggobi-devel
+g3data
+Mayavi
+
+#Misc. Utils
+screen
+rlwrap
+xchat
+shutter
+wine
+fig2ps
+bibtex2html
+hevea
+
+#Include Mozilla Firefox
+firefox
+
+%end
+
+%post
+
+%end