Dear EMBOSS developers, today I received the following bug report about the quantity of data shipped in the Debian package for EMBOSS.
> emboss-data recently grew from a slim 5 megabytes to a massive 305. > Closer inspection reveals the primary culprits to be large taxonomy > and gene ontology databases: > > 63927095 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/data/TAXONOMY/names.dmp > 58897689 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xtax > 53221137 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/data/TAXONOMY/nodes.dmp > 28885180 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xid > 23876286 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xup > 20110641 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/data/OBO/gene_ontology.1_2.obo > 13816644 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xde > 8964472 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xrnk > 8963308 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xgc > 6047464 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xnm > 5642511 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/taxon.xmgc > 2504535 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xac > 2220728 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xis > 1292180 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xid > [...] > 437512 ./usr/share/EMBOSS/index/go.xns http://bugs.debian.org/682042 In Debian, one solution would be to transfer this data in a separate optional package. But before doing so, I would like to ask you if this data really oughts to be distributed with EMBOSS ? After all, for many other databases, there are scripts to download and index the data after installation. Will EMBOSS 6.5 ship the taxonomy and gene ontology databases as well ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
