Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.20.2005141416560.30325@salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
Date: 2020-05-14T21:21:43Z
From: Rich Shepard
Subject: Automating package updates after major version change
In-Reply-To: <6B143159-AD3E-4703-A6EB-C36D59DAE637@dcn.davis.ca.us>
On Thu, 14 May 2020, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> On the contrary... that is the use case in which it makes the least sense
> to muck with system files. System files are maintained using system
> package management tools which at best lag terribly, while R packages are
> much easier to manage using R's internal package tools with no elevated
> privileges.
Jeff,
I must not be following your thoughts. The slackbuilds.org group maintains a
package for the current R distribution (when the maintainer gets around to
checking that the build script works with the source.) Every library not
provided in the core R distribution I download and install from the local
CRAN mirror.
All Slackware distribution executables are stored in /usr/bin/. Most of the
SBo application packages are also installed there.
Application-specific functions are the province of the user and I let root
download, build, and install R packages.
Regards,
Rich