J.W. Bizzaro writes: > Now, I'm thinking that we could actually use RPM, but there would be two > problems: > > (1) RPM installs etc. under root > (2) Not every UNIX system uses RPM, in fact only about half of the Linux > systems > > But what if we modified it (it's GPL) to install etc. in the user's directory? What about debians package manager ? - debian is the only true GNU Linux distribution - and the "alien" script can switch between rpm/deb/tar/cpio > Oh yeah, and we can use the RPM-to-HTML rpmfind database for browsing loci > available on the Web. sounds almost like an onliner ... is it possible to use python for perl-like oneliners ? ====================================================================== = RECOMB99 ========== Now i have finaly managed to get my poster out of the #$#%# printer... - in one hour I am catching plane to the bioinformatics meeting in Lyon/france ... how many Loci'ers am I going to see there ? I am staying at: Le Meridien, part Dieu 129 Rue Servient-part-dieu - but most of the time I'll be nailed to my poster (Title: Comparative Analysis of Genomic Architectures) Lets try to meet and compile a loci_french_wine_db.py module :-) c ya -thomas -- Sicheritz Ponten Thomas E. Department of Molecular Biology blippblopp at linux.nu BMC, Uppsala University BMC: +46 18 4714214 BOX 590 S-751 24 UPPSALA Sweden Fax +46 18 557723 http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas Molecular Tcl: http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/tcl Molecular Linux: http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/mol_linux De Chelonian Mobile ... The Turtle Moves ...