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On Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:40, Davide Cittaro wrote: |
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> Hi there, I see (and I have installed) that there is an ebuild for |
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> ncbi C toolkit, that includes many well known biology applications. I |
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> wonder why there is no ebuild for the ncbi C++ toolkit, also |
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> available on NCBI ftp server (and this is true also for many other |
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> package/port managers, i.e. in freebsd). |
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Hi Davide, |
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The reason is lack of human resources. I think no one in the Gentoo |
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development team is familiar with the NCBI C++ toolkit, so nobody has had any |
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particular interest in adding it to Portage. We already have lots of new |
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package requests that we try to work on from time to time, but most of our |
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time is spent updating existing packages or fixing bugs. |
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You can help by filing an enhancement request on the Gentoo Bugzilla |
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(bugzilla.gentoo.org). It will be assigned to the sci-biology project and |
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maybe, eventually, we will have the time to work on it. If you can write an |
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ebuild for the package yourself, that would speed up the process |
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tremendously. |
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Cheers, |
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Olivier Fisette (ribosome) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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