>
> That would be awesome. Mahout does have quite a few dependencies which
> might make it an interesting packaging exercise. I am not sure whether
> all of them are available in Debian already. At least Hadoop should be
> available in Debian testing, but did not yet make it to the latest
> stable release.

It may take a while since I am just starting to get accustomed to R.

If anyone here wants to package it before I get a chance, I'll more than 
happy to sponsor you. (in order to get a package in Debian you have to 
be developer/maintainer or have a sponsor)

-r.