For starters possibly the r-recommended package could be turned into a recommended package instead of a requirement. Without doing a thorough analysis it seems that that metapackage (more precisely a single requirement of that package) is the reason why R demands gcc 3.4
About the r-base-core depending on the atlas3-base package, I've just checked it out and indeed altas3-base depends of libg2c0. Fortunately it seems that r-base-core lists alternative packages to the atlas3-base, like refblas3 which does not depend of any GCC 3.4 component. It's sole dependency is libc6 >= 2.3.4 which doesn't pose any problem. So after all it seems that right now it is very possible to install R without having to install another compiler or compile any source code. How about it? -- the R package depends of GCC 3.4 https://launchpad.net/bugs/70251 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
