On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, A.J. Rossini wrote: > Wolfgang Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > >> > >>>In R-devel, the Depends: field in the DESCRIPTION file is now used by > >>>library() to load the named packages before the current package, and > >>>also to set up the environment to save images and prepare for lazy > >>>loading. > >> > > > > Are circular dependencies allowed? > > Or do they need to be broken, e.g. by replacing one of the edges in a > > loop by a "suggests"? > > Argh -- BioC has something close to that for builds. The release > folks will have to explore that issue!
If all the packages were using saved images, nothing has changed, for the Depends: packages are the ones needed to save the image. (The rest are Suggests:.) And if a package is not using a saved image then the Depends: are not needed to build it. You can probably break this by building a package with --no-save and then building it later with --save. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel