Dear all, In the Debian-Med project, we started to package a bioinformatic analysis suite - EMBOSS - which exploits local or remote sequence databases (read-only). When they are small (a few megaoctets), we are considering pacakging them. But in the case of much bigger ones (gigabytes), we will use wrappers.
It would make a lot of sense to have them in the same directory, so that the sysadmin can dedicate a partition to this heavy data. We are thinking about something like /usr/share/biodata for instance. In the case the wrappers would directly install data and not generate ad-hoc packages, maybe something in the /var hierachy would be more appropriate. But there is no /var/share... Also I am a bit unsure if the local sysadmin would be allowed to write in... Was there already a similar situation in Debian? What was the solution chosen? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
