Hi Guix, I’m sorry for the confusion. I accidentally resent this cover letter along with the patch for r-knitrbootstrap.
Please note that the patch for r-knitrbootstrap has nothing to do with the recursive CRAN importer patches. ~~ Ricardo Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: > attached is a patch series that gives us a recursive CRAN importer. I still > haven't documented it in the manual, because I'm not sure if the > implementation is acceptable. > > Simply put, the procedure that produces a package expression now returns > multiple values. The first is the package expression, the second is a list of > dependencies (with their upstream names). This allows us to go through that > list and check if any unpackaged inputs are among them. > > The recursive importer stops when a package cannot be imported (e.g. when a > bioconductor package has unpackaged CRAN dependencies), or when all packages > either already existed at runtime or have been packaged. > > To make this work well I had to create a list of packages that should not be > imported (because they are part of the default R installation), and I had to > make sure that R packages always get a predictable Guix package name. > > Comments are very welcome! > > ~~ Ricardo
