Re: Any interest in Debian packages of Geant 4?
Yes. I´m interested.
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a question for other HEP / nuclear physicists on the lists.
> Please follow up only to debian-science.
>
> Needing to do some Monte Carlo simulations for the last bit of work on
> my thesis, I was once again reminded how much of a pain compiling Geant4
> from source is. As a result I've spent some time over the last few days
> Debianizing it. The packages are still very rough so I'm not making
> them public (yet), but I am curious to know whether there is enough
> interest in Geant 4 on Debian to make it worthwhile to eventually have
> it in the official archive.
>
> The total installed size of the packages is 120 MB, not including the
> data files [1]. I would be reluctant to put this huge chunk of code in
> the archive unless there is a demand for it. (Plus *another* 100 MB for
> James Ferrando's unofficial package of the CLHEP library, although this
> could be reduced to 50 MB by including only the merged libCLHEP.so and
> not the component libraries libCLHEP-<whatever>.so.) The Geant 4
> packages could be cut down from 120 to 97 MB by only distributing the
> static libraries (upstream doesn't version the shared libraries so they
> aren't very safe to use), but still!
>
> For comparison, in Sid, a reasonably complete OpenOffice.org 2
> installation from Debian packages is 200 MB, and tetex-bin + tetex-base
> + tetex-extra is 127 MB -- both of these have a lot more users than
> Geant 4 would. If there isn't enough desire for Geant 4 in Debian's
> official archive, I might be able to keep unofficial .debs around in a
> separate repository when they are more polished. I'll post occasional
> updates on the progress of this to debian-science.
>
>
> [1] The data files total 473 MB when uncompressed, and are probably
> non-free. Fortunately they are optional. I would definitely not upload
> them into Debian, but instead would create a "geant4-data-installer"
> package in contrib that downloaded them from CERN's web site - let CERN
> pay for the bandwidth!
>
> Happy Holidays to all,
>
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