[BioC] Installing Biocondutor under Debian r

Johannes Husig derwisch@panix.com
Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:41:25 -0500


Cheers,

after installing Bioconductor on my Debian system I was
surprised to see that the new files were installed in
the /usr/lib/R tree. 

Under Debian, this is considered offensive behaviour.
Debian assumes that the /usr tree (save /usr/local) is
only touched by the distribution, and that non-distributional
packages are to be installed in the /usr/local tree. 

So people who use Debian and related distributions should
be advised to change the paths according to their system.

Many things run automatically under Bioconductor so sometimes
users are tempted to perform things that are not in line with
the philosophy of the underlying system.

Greetings


Johannes