Message-ID: <CAOC91MQ1-wpMfqLwDQk-dwQ3gcb7wAJS20wNff5QK-gbgL+nrA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2016-08-02T16:44:22Z
From: Thomas J. Leeper
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?
In-Reply-To: <22432.52145.624449.132640@max.nulle.part>
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
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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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