[R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?

Dirk,

That is useful. I think the "Recommends" category from that link is
pretty much what I am suggesting - something that should be installed
if it's available in the package repository but is not loaded/imported
by default.

Some of those other relationships sound like they would also be
useful, for example in the case you mention.

-Thomas

Thomas J. Leeper
http://www.thomasleeper.com

See eg https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

We have other big fish to fry.  Eg many packages have LinkingTo: BH (as Boost
headers are indeed awesome) but this 120 mb (!!) payload is needed _once_
during package compilation / installation and never again afterwards.  So
Build-Depends: would be a nice addition too.

Dirk

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