[pkg-bioc] Improving on our shared repository?

[elw at stderr.org]

> I see. So we are having filesystem issues because we have too many 
> files.
>
> In that case I see no other choice but to split the 'one big dir' 
> approach into a tree of smaller dirs, maybe at the start 26 of them for 
> every first letter [ but there are too many with R, no ? ] so maybe we 
> need one dir per source package, or ...


why not use the filesystem structure used by debian for the package pools?

surely there's some code that can be borrowed for setting that up in a 
painless way....

--e