Problem with the update to R 4.0.2 in the Fedora users' list
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 17:17, Jos? Ab?lio Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:
There was a thread this weekend in the fedora users' mailing list where a user had problems updating R 4.0.2: "non-rpm R libraries not accessible now w R v 4.0.x" https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users at lists.fedoraproject.org/ thread/2FFST3GWZCNM45SX53VKB255TO4LOV4C/
I don't follow that list, but I see you have everything under control, thanks.
TLDR; as far as I can see the user had installed (as root) a package from cran and had installed the same package (R-here) from the Fedora repositories. Since the package were installed in different locations the package installed by the user appeared first and thus it won regarding the Fedora package. The only problem was that the other package was installed using R 3.6 and thus the user had the warning that seemed confusing. Are there any kind of tools to pick these cases or this is one of those corner cases that are not worth the trouble?
IMO it's not worth the trouble. Users should never install packages as root. That's it. This may sound harsh, but, if they do, then they should know what they're doing, and it's their problem. This is like the seals on the screws of an electronic device: we ship one configuration that works; we simply cannot foresee the countless ways to break it once you start tinkering with it. :)
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