Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-28 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
severity 767043 minor thanks The vast majority of users of ESS deploy it with R, and expect M-x R to work. AFAIK, that's what Recommends is for -- install by default, don't prevent uninstallation. (The rare user who knows about --no-install-recommends probably knows what he's doing.) the

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 October 2014 at 08:59, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | severity 767043 minor | thanks | | The vast majority of users of ESS deploy it with R, and expect M-x R to work. | | AFAIK, that's what Recommends is for -- install by default, don't prevent | uninstallation. (The rare user who knows

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Package: ess Version: 14.09-1 Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to a Recommends. -- Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 October 2014 at 00:33, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | Package: ess | Version: 14.09-1 | | Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather | useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to | a Recommends. I disagree. Dirk --

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 October 2014 at 01:54, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | | Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather | | useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to | | a Recommends. | | I disagree. | | May I most humbly request a slightly more verbose

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
| Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather | useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to | a Recommends. I disagree. May I most humbly request a slightly more verbose expression of your opinion? -- Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to