Re: Bioconductor 400MB packages in Debian?
Hi Steffen,
Am Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 04:43:20PM +0100 schrieb Steffen Möller:
> Hello,
>
> Some expression data crossed my way and while
>
> conda install -c bioconda bioconductor-clariomdhumantranscriptcluster.db
>
> is no big deal (unless when it is), we do not support it in Debian - it is big. Well, at least there was a time when this was considered big, I am not so sure any more, so here I ask.
>
> https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/annotation/html/pd.clariom.d.human.html
>
> comes in a ~400MB tarball, which is mostly a SQLite database.
>
> I would support a decision according to which anybody interested would just go and run the installer, but the dependencies are non-trivial, so you effectively end up in installing all of BioConductor in parallel to what Debian already offers, which I am not a fan of.
>
> What do you think?
If you think that this kind of large packages are helpful for our
users just upload it to new and see what happens. I admit from your
description I see more issues which license and copyright rather
than size.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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