[Bioc-devel] Depending vs. Importing?
IMO, the only difference is that the package is not attached on package load time for imports, so one can reduce the overhead for packages with a lot of minor dependencies. Until now I haven't realized that the information in the imports field is not evaluated during package installation (is this really the case?). Florian
Byron Ellis wrote:
Is there any particular reason Imports and different from Dependencies? I may be missing something, but importing would seem to imply a dependence relationship which doesn't appear to be honored. rflowcyt (not to pick on it, it just happened to be the package I tried to load) for example imports but does not depend on prada. --- Byron Ellis (ellis at stat.harvard.edu) "Oook" -- The Librarian
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