Olivier Sallou <olivier.sal...@irisa.fr> writes: > Indeed, many bioinformatics programs relies on external data. But I am afraid > that if we start to add some data packages, we will open an endless open > door.... BioInformatics datasets are large, and becoming huge and numerous. > This size will be an issue for Debian mirrors (mainly if some indexed data are > system dependent) but will also be a pain for the user if, when installing a > program (to have a look), it downloads GBs of dependent packaged data. It may > be really slow and fill the user disk (and I do not talk of package updates).
Without having any solution, I'd like to mention that this is not a med specific problem. I am working on a number of packages for astrophysics that require/suggest up to some hundreds of megabytes calibration data <http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/>. Given that these packages are of quite specific interest, it makes IMO no sense to pollute all Debian mirrors with these files. Best regards Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ytzobd49zcp....@news.ole.ath.cx
