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authorSebastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org>2008-06-06 19:58:51 +0000
committerSebastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org>2008-06-06 19:58:51 +0000
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Added major version bump for geant-4, slotted. Thanks much to Benjamin Bennier for his work (bug #). Now geant-3 is also slotted, and got a revision bump
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<herd>sci-physics</herd>
<longdescription lang="en">
Geant simulates the passage of subatomic particles through matter, for
- instance, particle detectors. For maximum flexibility, Geant
- simulations are performed by linking Fortran code supplied by the user
- with the Geant libraries, then running the resulting executable.
-
- This package includes gxint, the script used to perform this linking step.
+ instance, particle detectors. Geant 3 simulations are performed by
+ linking Fortran code supplied by the user with the Geant libraries,
+ then running the resulting executable. This package includes gxint,
+ the script used to perform this linking step.
+ Geant 4 is a complete rewrite in C++ with addition of other modern
+ features and detectors.
</longdescription>
</pkgmetadata>