tl;dr: Repackaging in native formats dramatically improves user access to
packages.
>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:23:51 +0100, Uwe Ligges
>> said:
> 1. You probably mean "Depends" rather than "Requires".
> 2. You forgot "LinkingTo"
Heh, thanks! I'll add them.
> All binary packages on CRAN ar
A working system exists at
http://debian.cran.r-project.org
with automated builds (ie automated resolutions of both built-time and
run-time dependencies) of over 2000 packages for both 64-bit Linux ("amd64")
and 32-bit Linux ("i386") of the Debian 'testing' distribution. Charles and
I
On 20.01.2010 20:11, Allen S. Rout wrote:
Ross Boylan writes:
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
How about using:
Enhances: Rmpi
This unique local bestiary of dependencies is quite inconvenient for
anyone trying to connect R with any other system of package
mana
Ross Boylan writes:
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
>> How about using:
>>
>> Enhances: Rmpi
This unique local bestiary of dependencies is quite inconvenient for
anyone trying to connect R with any other system of package
management. Below, I've included the rath
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
> How about using:
>
> Enhances: Rmpi
>
> ?
>
> b
The main reason is that "enhances" seems a peculiar way to describe the
relation between a package that (optionally) uses a piece of
infrastructure and the infrastructure. Similarly, I
