Hi all, > It features an astonishing array of bioinformatics software and kind of > saves what is left of my sanity to get our local HPC environment going. > Our admins are "its in your home directory" fine with it.
Yes, I can see this is one of the main reasons for its popularity, and I also use Homebrew on my work Mac since I don't have admin privileges there. > I do not know what this means for Debian Med. It is a competition. And, > with some early brain wash from the homebrew on the Mac I am now using > on my desk, it also feels natural. Kind of nice is that the package > names seem to be kept in sync with ours, e.g. I just noticed that STAR, > our NGS aligner, is also called rna-star. And any such sync would be > really nice to have so we can benefit from each other. I think keeping package names in sync is indeed very thoughtful and a good idea to do to reduce the amount of confusion and/or surprise to the end user, who basicallu only has to use 'brew install' on one machine and 'apt-get install' on the other. Something I personally find interesting about Homebrew-science (but others here may disagree) is that they apparently have a more relaxed way of embracing upstream's way of distribution and building, which seems to accelerate turnover time for packaging a lot. For example, there is no requirement to build in a non-networked environment using already packaged dependencies only. While I am aware of the security and long-term maintainability considerations, this is difficult to beat for the pure purpose of distribution and easy installability, and indeed I have often seen their list of recipes contain new tools much earlier than Debian. Best Sascha -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.