Hello Tom, thank you for the comments and sure let's discuss this @ SIG :)
On 21/07/2022 16:39, Tom Callaway wrote:
Hi Ali, welcome to the SIG!
I'm not sure that adding new R module packages makes sense in EPEL.
The exponential rate of new dependencies just to be able to keep the
existing packages current in Fedora makes it incredibly painful for us
to do the R major version upgrades there (whereas, for EPEL, it's much
much simpler).
Part of why I haven't had time to do the next major R update for
Fedora is this, it takes so much time to rebuild the entire R package
tree there (and as Fedora work is no longer the primary part of my day
job, large multi day efforts like this have not been easy to accomplish).
Combine that with the average R user being content to simply install
via CRAN, and I'm not sure that the pros outweigh the cons in adding
modules as packages to EPEL.
I think this is something we should discuss as a SIG though. :)
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