Hi Steffen, Am Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 04:43:20PM +0100 schrieb Steffen Möller: > Hello, > > Some expression data crossed my way and while > > conda install -c bioconda bioconductor-clariomdhumantranscriptcluster.db > > is no big deal (unless when it is), we do not support it in Debian - it is > big. Well, at least there was a time when this was considered big, I am not > so sure any more, so here I ask. > > https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/annotation/html/pd.clariom.d.human.html > > comes in a ~400MB tarball, which is mostly a SQLite database. > > I would support a decision according to which anybody interested would just > go and run the installer, but the dependencies are non-trivial, so you > effectively end up in installing all of BioConductor in parallel to what > Debian already offers, which I am not a fan of. > > What do you think?
If you think that this kind of large packages are helpful for our users just upload it to new and see what happens. I admit from your description I see more issues which license and copyright rather than size. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
