On Sat 26 May 2018 at 21:12, Eli Schwartz via aur-general <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/26/2018 08:37 PM, Ista Zahn via aur-general wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> Thanks for doing this. However, it seems your script does not >> correctly specify system dependencies, which IMO is the main benefit >> of using pacman instead of install.packages. For example, the sf >> package should depend on gdal, goes, and proj. Do you plan to fix all >> these dependencies? >> >> Best, >> Ista > > This is why anatolik's quarry repo whitelists the packages it will > build, and includes a configuration system for teaching ruby gems how to > depend on system dependencies, inject necessary patches, and do other > overrides for gems which don't work using just the barebones generated > PKGBUILD. > > Which is sort of the point here -- it's ridiculous to autogenerate 13K > PKGBUILDs, then upload them to the AUR without testing them. Thanks for the feedback. I was under the (apparently mistaken) impression that CRAN didn't allow packages that required system dependencies other than R and a few compilers. I'll look into if there's a way to get that info. Alex
