Bug#793644: ITP: hadoop -- Apache Hadoop distributed processing framework

[Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>]

2015-07-28 12:27 GMT+02:00 Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>:
>> I doubt that anybody would use a debian version of hadoop now as long as it
>> isn't backed by upstream, cloudera or hortonworks.
>
> I don't think this package will be widely adopted either, not everyone
> churns an amount of data that justifies the use of Hadoop. I'm mainly
> packaging it as a dependency of Solr, which is more likely to be popular.

Hadoop is listed on so many job offers, and that seems a nice exit-way
to escape from "SAS B.I." hell, that would be really nice to be able to give
it a try without going through some contrived manual build process
as told here: https://wiki.debian.org/Hadoop .

In a learning/academic mindset, the amount of data doesn't matter.

> backed by upstream, cloudera or hortonworks.

I guess that people paid to handle this stuff 9 to 5
can handle the existing manual build.

Thanks !