[Charles Plessy] > 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...
I would recommend updating the software to be able to read the data files from several directories. This way, the small read-only data set can be stored in /usr/share/, and the large dataset fetched from the web can be stored in /var/lib/, and the programs using them can read from both. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
