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[Horst H. von Brand]

Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "KK" == Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
> 
> KK> Huh? What's that doing in a Fedora package?
> 
> What do you mean?  Do you feel this is somehow unacceptable?
> 
> KK> It's plain data, isn't it?
> 
> It's data for use with other packages in the distribution.
> 
> KK> Are we going to get a R-BSgenome.*.UCSC.ce* package for every
> KK> species in existence? ;-)
> 
> Only the ones which have been sequenced.  I think there are three or
> four of them available.

While I'm not against including genome data, this is a very specialized
area... perhaps a separate YUM repo for such stuff? Copies of this will
have to be carried by each and every mirror.

Next step will be to include all of iBiblio's collection of literary works
that are now in the public domain?
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