On 16:03 Tue 16 Oct , Sébastien Fabbro wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 06:57 -0700, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > 1. I'm not sure the idea of integrating, say, R packages, into Portage > > is a good one. Debian has a lot of R packages in their repository, but > > that's mainly because one developer, Dirk Eddelbuettel, took that on as > > a personal mission. For that matter, I don't know that Portage really > > *needs* to have "tight" integration with any other package management > > systems. In other words, does a CPAN Perl package really need to be > > wrapped in an ebuild, or could a Gentoo user just as easily install CPAN > > packages directly? The same goes for Ruby gems -- it's only marginally > > more convenient for a Rubyist to have gems in Portage, and you'll never > > have them *all. If you have the developer resources, sure, why not, but > > aren't there better things the developers could be doing? In any event, > > I use R and its packages heavily and don't see the need to "emerge > > Rcmdr" -- R's native package management system is fine. So is Ruby's > > "rubygems" package management system. > > Not saying 100 R packages => 100 ebuilds, but passing proper flags, > building deps and all could be wrapped in a nice gentoo way (btw, is > paludis doing this?). Anyway this was just a project idea in a todo list > and should go to another thread, or the corresponding bug.
Paludis does support CRAN, according to its docs. I don't use it so I can't comment on the details. Portage already has g-cpan.pl to automatically integrate Perl; there's projects to do the same thing with the Python Cheese Shop and Ruby gems as well. Thanks, Donnie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
