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declaring package dependencies

Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 14 September 2013 at 09:04, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
| On 13-09-13 12:00 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > But the focus here should not be on my hobby package. The focus needs to be
| > on how four CRAN maintainers (who do a boatload of amazing work which is
| > _truly_ appreciated in its thoroughness and reach) could make the life of
| > authors of 4800+ packages easier by communicating and planning a tad more.
| 
| Let me paraphrase that:  "The CRAN maintainers do a lot of work, and it 
| helps me a lot, but if they only did a little bit more work it would 
| help me even more."
| 
| I suspect they'd be more receptive to suggestions that had them doing 
| less work, not more.

Presumably that also holds for the authors of the 4800+ packages.  

But my point is not the about "less", it is about "more predictable".
Currently, the system appears to be anything but.  We can do better.

Dirk

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Michael Friendly declaring package dependencies Sep 12 Paul Gilbert declaring package dependencies Sep 12 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 12 Michael Friendly declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Dirk Eddelbuettel Fortune! (Re: declaring package dependencies) Sep 13 Dirk Eddelbuettel declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Brian Ripley declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Dirk Eddelbuettel declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Paul Gilbert declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Dirk Eddelbuettel declaring package dependencies Sep 13 John Fox declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Gray Calhoun declaring package dependencies Sep 13 Achim Zeileis Fortune! (Re: declaring package dependencies) Sep 14 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Dirk Eddelbuettel declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Brian G. Peterson declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Paul Gilbert declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Dirk Eddelbuettel declaring package dependencies Sep 14 Michael Friendly declaring package dependencies Sep 15 Duncan Murdoch declaring package dependencies Sep 15 Paul Gilbert declaring package dependencies Sep 15 Brian Lee Yung Rowe declaring package dependencies Sep 15