On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 16.43.31 WEST Tom Callaway wrote:
> I'm inclined to agree. Users are expecting that things they install
> manually will override the system default (if any).
>
> Tom
FWIW I agree with both of you.
OTOH someone who never did that kind of error please raise your hand. :-)
Does anyone knows if there is some kind of packages repository lint that could
catch this type of problems.
Those were the main points of this message.
What comes next it is just me thinking aloud since I am not proposing any,
immediate or medium term, change this are just what I have been thinking for a
long time.
One way to avoid this kind of errors would be to have the library directories
with R version like I suggested in May. Searching for this on the web I see
that users (mostly from windows and mac backgrounds) have some tips where the
directories that R version used to installed them is present in the name.
The recipes for upgrading were basically to take the names from installed
packages, save it into an external (csv) file and then with the new R version
to install those packages. In another context I do the same thing when I need
to install a new computer with Fedora and to have it working as soon as
possible:
in the previous computer
# rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' | sort | uniq > packages-list.txt
in the new computer
# dnf install $(cat packages-list.txt)
And voil� a new computer is ready will all the same packages as the previous
one.
I still think that this is a better naming scheme but looking briefly into the
installed packages I see that perl and ruby do not follow it.
End of thinking aloud...
--
Jos� Ab�lio
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