On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 05:46, Tom Callaway <tcall...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Thinking out loud here... do we want to have some macro magic to embed a > dependency on an R(ABI) provides? Where R 4.0.0 would provide R(ABI) = 4 > and all R packages built against it would pick up Requires: R(ABI) = 4 ?
Note that recompilation is sometimes required too for minor version changes, so the virtual provides should include the minor version to be in the safe side. > I don't suppose we need it, since the likelihood of someone installing R > module packages but not updating R is low, but I wanted to throw it out > there. Or updating R and not updating R packages. Even if the chances are low, I think it's a cheap thing to add and would make the installation more robust to this kind of issue. -- Iñaki Úcar _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
