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Re: Plink2 (Was: Bug#771154: plink: New major upstream version of plink)



Le Fri, Jan 09, 2015 at 10:17:34AM +0100, L.C. Karssen a écrit :
> 
> My main argument for using plink (in fact as a sysadmin I always
> manually create a plink symlink in /usr/local/bin that points to either
> /usr/bin/p-link or the /usr/lib/plink/plink binary directly) is that all
> tutorials and courses in genetic epidemiology that I know (including my
> own) use the plink name. It is (obviously) what is used in the plink
> documentation and since many people (in my experience) that are using
> plink are not very experienced with the Linux command line I'd like to
> keep things as simple and straight forward as possible.

Good morning everybody,

I completely agree.  Regarding the "plink" program provided by the "putty"
package, the simplest is to just make the "plink" packages conflict against
"putty" and use /usr/bin/plink.  This is what "parallell" does against
"moreutils" for instance.

Have a nice Sunday,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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