Tuesday 25 September 2007, Allan McRae wrote:
| Crap... I think I sent a blank reply there. My bad!
|
| This has not hit my mirror yet but i will try it when it does. I
| think xorg-fonts-100dpi should possibly be a dependency because it
| is used for the main headings in plots. Given X11 support is
| compiled in, this seems reasonable.
good idea. as i have the 100dpi fonts always on my system, i did not
think of it. but installing r from fresh, this is true, it should be
a dependency.
| Am I correct in assuming that the default install directory for
| packages is not /usr/share/R/library ?
yes, they are. this stayed. mainly there were some things
(locales, ...) under /usr/lib/R/share what is quite wrong place for
it. now r has /usr/share/R/ for this things.
| I had started trying to
| make a script that would manage CRAN packages. The basic idea was
| to use R CMD BATCH on a script that set the install point to a
| temporary directory and built the R library. This is then
| converted to standard pacman package using a generated PKGBUILD.
| I am working to see if I can sort out dependencies in the CRAN
| packages and upgrading support before I make it available. Is
| this the basic idea you use to maintain your CRAN packages or is
| there something simple I am missing?
you mean your script takes the whole CRAN and makes pkgs from it?
automatically? that would indeed be the solution. i have locally just
having some pkgs i use often. the reason why i prefer pacman to the R
internal installation things is, that in pacman, every system-file
belongs to a pkg (pacman -Qo /some/file) and this keeps the system
much cleaner. together with my /etc backup, i can just move to any
other ocmputer by just taking the package list with me.
the pain with CRAN was the dependences... but if your script is taking
every pkg and makes the coresponding PKGBUILD with the correct deps,
its great! i would even consider adding it to the repos together with
all the pkgs, if there is need for it.
- D
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