Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add freebayes.

[Pjotr Prins]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 04:44:13PM +0100, Roel Janssen wrote:
> One of the problems with the patch is probably the bulk of dependencies
> dragged in (for example, vcflib).  They use specific versions so they
> are tied to this package (so that's why I cannot package them separately).

This approach is very common in bioinformatics and one way they fight
dependency hell. Not the best way, admittedly.

It may be worthwhile to package vcflib, for example, separately as
freebayes merely requires the header files to compile. The problem is
that that te current vcflib does not include the headers from a
default install, if I understand Roel correctly.  Ricardo, can you
advice on this? Should we add the headers in guix through a vcflib
installer?

Personally I favour adding freebayes as is and when we decide to
package these libraries separately revisit the issues. 

Pj.