[Bioc-devel] Reducing dependencies

Dear All,

We have recently extended our Bioconductor package tradeSeq <https://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/tradeSeq.html> to allow different input formats and accommodate extended downstream analyses, by building on other R/Bioconductor packages.
However this has resulted in a significant increase in the number of dependencies due to relying on other packages that also have many dependencies, for example causing very long build times on Travis <https://travis-ci.com/github/statOmics/tradeSeq>.

We are therefore wondering about current recommendations to reduce the dependency load. We have moved some larger packages from ?Imports? to ?Suggests?, but to no avail.

Best,
Koen