Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Allen S. Rout
Ross Boylan r...@biostat.ucsf.edu writes: On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote: How about using: Enhances: Rmpi This unique local bestiary of dependencies is quite inconvenient for anyone trying to connect R with any other system of package management. Below, I've

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 20.01.2010 20:11, Allen S. Rout wrote: Ross Boylanr...@biostat.ucsf.edu writes: On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote: How about using: Enhances: Rmpi This unique local bestiary of dependencies is quite inconvenient for anyone trying to connect R with any other

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-20 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
A working system exists at http://debian.cran.r-project.org with automated builds (ie automated resolutions of both built-time and run-time dependencies) of over 2000 packages for both 64-bit Linux (amd64) and 32-bit Linux (i386) of the Debian 'testing' distribution. Charles and I

Re: [Rd] optional package dependency (enhances)

2010-01-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:48 +, Benilton Carvalho wrote: How about using: Enhances: Rmpi ? b The main reason is that enhances seems a peculiar way to describe the relation between a package that (optionally) uses a piece of infrastructure and the infrastructure. Similarly, I would