Message-ID: <44B20DF4.8090606@dkfz-heidelberg.de>
Date: 2006-07-10T08:21:08Z
From: Florian Hahne
Subject: [Bioc-devel] Depending vs. Importing?
In-Reply-To: <748401DD-10F7-44C3-9E3E-E868404FD0D0@stat.harvard.edu>
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.
>
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> Byron Ellis (ellis at stat.harvard.edu)
> "Oook" -- The Librarian
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