Dirk, That is useful. I think the "Recommends" category from that link is pretty much what I am suggesting - something that should be installed if it's available in the package repository but is not loaded/imported by default.
Some of those other relationships sound like they would also be useful, for example in the case you mention. -Thomas Thomas J. Leeper http://www.thomasleeper.com On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > See eg https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html > > We have other big fish to fry. Eg many packages have LinkingTo: BH (as Boost > headers are indeed awesome) but this 120 mb (!!) payload is needed _once_ > during package compilation / installation and never again afterwards. So > Build-Depends: would be a nice addition too. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
