Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis: > An alternative is to inherit from the “r” package in “statistics.scm”. > > (define-module (my own packages) > #:use-module (guix packages) > #:use-module (gnu packages statistics) > #:use-module (srfi srfi-1)) > > (define-public my-r > (package (inherit r) > (name "my-r") > ;; modify only the inputs here > (native-inputs (alist-delete "texlive" (package-native-inputs r))) > > (inputs (alist-delete "icedtea6" (package-inputs r)))))
Speaking of which: should we get rid of icedtea6:jdk in the default R package (closure size: 1 GiB), and maybe of TeX Live (4 GiB)? Or should we provide, say, ‘r-light’ with the definition above? I’m afraid having these two dependencies by default makes it prohibitively expensive. Ludo’.
