On 28/07/18 00:45, Andreas Tille wrote: > [...] > OK, I understood that full med-bio and med-bio-dev are to heavy for a > live system. Just for my personal understanding: Is Bio-Linux > targeting at live media *exclusively*?
Hi, Andreas. Not exclusively, the "Bio-Linux" project has two objectives: 1. Povide a 'live' DVD/USB environment that can be used to learn about bioinformatics on a modest PC/laptop with the NEBC training materials. 2. Install "Bio-Linux" permanently to the same PC, or a more powerful server. I've installed all of my "Bio-Linux" terminal servers from the same 'live' USB and added software not on the 'live' .iso from the repositories that are pre-configured in "Bio-Linux". > So we obviously need to maintain separate tasks for bio-linux. Please > note that the blends-dev scripts are adding a prefix to every single > task so if you create a task bio-linux-desktop the resulting metapackage > will be named med-bio-linux-desktop. For my feeling this is a bit hard > to read and so I'd rather go with a task desktop-bio-linux but you are > free to decide. I guess you would like to drop the redundant "-bio-linux" and call it "med-bio-desktop", which is not an unreasonable suggestion because we are actually discussing a sub-set of "med-bio" that contains most of the packages present in "Bio-Linux" and the possibility of adding missing packages to "med-bio". Logically, we could also create "med-bio-server" so that some of the 'server' side of "Bio-Linux" can be removed from the 'live' desktop: A typical install would then be server + desktop. > I'd also see an option to maintain a separate set of metapackages. The > Debian Med team could create another source package called bio-linux. > There you create a task desktop (may be more) and than the resulting > metapackage will be named bio-linux-desktop. You are free to define > more tasks that will all get the bio-linux prefix in the metapackage > names. I have not thought longish about this but for the moment I do > not see much extra effort in this. So feel free to decide what might be > your prefered option. I really appreciate the help and support of the Debian-Med team and I think it would be very good idea to create a new source package called "bio-linux" if you are all willing to help? Steffen also mentioned in Barcelona, that a 'live' distro using packages from the Debian-Med team would help to raise the profile of the Debian-Med >>> So lets discuss this all on the mailing list not wasting input of others >>> (including Tony's) which have a valuable opinion (specifically since I'm >>> not a user and thus I'm probably bad in guessing what users really need. >> >> I'll be driving to Milan next week, so I might not reply to emails for a >> few days - Please do move our conversation over to the Debian-Med list. > > Done and have a safe trip Thanks, I arrived safely in Milan with eleven servers, a 19" rack in a flat-pack and a huge pile of other kit last night :-) I'll be working here in Milan until Fri 10 Aug, then I'll be driving back home on holiday through France with very infrequent access to the Internet until 11 Sep. Bye, Tony. -- Minke Informatics Limited, Registered in Scotland - Company No. SC419028 Registered Office: 3 Donview, Bridge of Alford, AB33 8QJ, Scotland (UK) tel. +44(0)19755 63548 http://minke-informatics.co.uk mob. +44(0)7985 078324 mailto:[email protected]
