On Tue, 02 Apr 2013, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 05:39:05PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > When I said "peripheral" I meant in the sense that none of the Depends are > > used by anything else beyond R. I know it is "not small" -- there are now > > 4400 R packages on CRAN, and we have about 150 of those in Debian. > > I think it must be asked: what is the rationale of trying to > re-package those for Debian? CRAN works.
CRAN works, but it's not optimal. There's a reason why those packages are packaged, and why http://debian-r.debian.net exists. Don Armstrong -- Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes but then I think what if my mother could take back hers? -- a softer world #498 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=498 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130402164039.gk4...@rzlab.ucr.edu
