On 02/05/2011 09:11 PM, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 07:38:12PM +0100, Manuel Prinz wrote: >> >> Creating some sort of "science bin/ directory" is IMHO just asking for >> trouble. Also, if two scientific packages create a naming conflict, what >> to do then? > > Just for the sake of interest: Do you see any other problems than a name > space conflict in the scientific field (which I just assumed for a > moment when I wrote the proposal which is probably not very well > thought).
This is a good question. My main concern is that Debian for some reason or another may be perceived as incompatible by the scientific community. If anything would require manual adjustments then we then lose our edge in automated mass installs in clusters/clouds. In general, the answer to this question mostly depends on how we will interact in the upcoming years. We only do programs so far. For those and for databases in particular what comes to mind is that there may be discrepancies that would be preferred by some sites - we do not know how to deal with multiple versions of packages installed in parallel, yet. But this seems solvable, at least for databases. In my mind, to help collaborations best and help the community on the way, we should strive towards limiting what we need to exchange between sites. As much as possible one shall refer to standardised packages across platforms and distributions to the degree that this is doable. My working route towards that the Debian installation should be resembling as much as possible the installation that a sysadmin would be performing from upstream's sources. It is a bit too early to tell. But with an increasing adoption of the command line interface to the workflow tool Taverna, we will get respective cross-platform efforts sooner than we think, I presume. Many greetings Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d4deb3e....@gmx.de
