#18691: Trac #17572 breaks the installation of several R packages.
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       Reporter:  charpent           |        Owner:
           Type:  defect             |       Status:  needs_work
       Priority:  major              |    Milestone:  sage-6.8
      Component:  packages:          |   Resolution:
  standard                           |    Merged in:
       Keywords:  r-project          |    Reviewers:
        Authors:  charpent           |  Work issues:
Report Upstream:  N/A                |       Commit:
         Branch:                     |  7a2b534dbaef5f609e0e31e4a5336a2acb97e192
  u/charpent/trac__17572_breaks_the_installation_of_several_r_packages_|     
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   Dependencies:                     |
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Comment (by charpent):

 Replying to [comment:26 jdemeyer]:
 > Did you forget an `echo`?

 Indeed... patch on the way.

 > {{{
 > >&2 "Warning: $R_MAKEVARS_SITE exists and is not a file : trouble
 ahead..."
 > }}}
 >
 > (personally, I would just drop the `-a` test, it's over-complicating
 things for no clear advantage)

 Basic surgeon's conditioning : if you don't see it, don't cut it ! We want
 to avoid overwriting something in the way as long as we don't know what is
 it and how it landed here...

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18691#comment:27>
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