Skip to content
Prev 61061 / 63424 Next
Original Raw

Proposal to limit Internet access during package load

Dirk Eddelbuettel 
Regarding 'system' libraries: Packages like stringi and nloptr download the
source of, respectively, libicu or libnlopt and build a library _if_ the
library is not found locally.  If we outlaw this, more users may hit a brick
wall because they cannot install system libraries (for lack of permissions),
or don't know how to, or ...  These facilities were not added to run afoul of
best practices -- they were added to help actual users. Something to keep in
mind. 

Dirk

Thread (22 messages)

Iñaki Ucar Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 23 Iñaki Ucar Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 23 Simon Urbanek Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 23 Iñaki Ucar Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Simon Urbanek Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Gabriel Becker Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Iñaki Ucar Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Simon Urbanek Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Simon Urbanek Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Iñaki Ucar Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Simon Urbanek Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Gabriel Becker Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Simon Urbanek Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Simon Urbanek Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Bob Rudis Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Dirk Eddelbuettel Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Gabriel Becker Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 26 Iñaki Ucar Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 27 Blätte, Andreas Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 27 Iñaki Ucar Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 27 Tomas Kalibera Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 27 Blätte, Andreas Proposal to limit Internet access during package load Sep 28