[pkg-bioc] Re: Bioconductor packages - my try

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 February 2005 at 13:36, elijah wright wrote:
| 
| > There is something we have not discussed yet. The locus link source
| > package is 50 MB compressed, hence fairly huge for the Debian infrastructure to
| > manage.  And we need this about three times for human, mouse, rat, but
| > we all know that chimp, fish, cow are all due to come. Is this an issue
| > for
| >  * a separate distribution of data packages?
| >  * a dynamic creation of such sources on the user's side?
| >  * both?
| 
| do the cran disk mirrors have enough space / bandwidth /etc to maintain a 
| seperate archive of debian cran data packages?
| 
| i don't think it would be a *bad* thing to add 500-600 packages to debian 
| - it'll annoy some folks, sure, but this is on par with the perl module 
| packaging folks introducing an average of a new module every 3 days or 
| so... and makes debian a whole lot more attractive for doing statistically 
| sound science.

Yes, but we need to discuss that with Debian at large, and I rather show
something working first.

| oh, there should probably be some task-r-xxxx packages for various chunks 
| of this...

The folks at CRAN are rumoured to be working on 'package views'. No golden
solution yet.  

Dirk

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