Pavel, Your tone does not exactly help in this discussion.
Briefly, I (like many other people) consider Linux and Unix to be multi-user systems. You can argue as passionately for a default installation in /usr/loca/lib/R/site-library as you did against. And some of your arguments are just silly ("dangerous group": dude, it is one 'sudo addgroup r-adm' [or anotther name...]) away). I have used such settings (such as un-setting R_LIBS_USER or its predecessors) for over a decade, it just works (if you give write permissions). It clearly helps us at work because everybody sees by the default the same packages. I have also spoken with different R Core members and several find the default installation below $HOME and in a versioned directory less than ideal as well. But it ensures writeability. Which I cannot do easily from the package. So maybe the change was too abrupt, and I think I may revert it. I generally prefer for packagers like myself to not divert from upstream unless they have good reasom or are unintrusive (and eg the added tab-completion we have here is both). But leaving newbies without installable directories is bad, as is possibly hiding existing installations. I am a little pressed for time (at useR!) and system (main server is ill, as is backup machine) but I should get a 3.4.1-2 out. I'd welcome other comments, for or against. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian