On 3 August 2016 at 17:39, Uwe Ligges wrote: | On 03.08.2016 17:17, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 3 August 2016 at 16:21, Uwe Ligges wrote: | > | > But then you are treating Suggests as Depends and installing irregardless. | | Yes, because I want to check all the runtime code on CRAN and not only | subsets.
To me, the intent of Suggests is to create such subsets. If you prohibit its use, may as well remove it (or rename it to, say, "VignetteDepends" or whatnot). | > When we let R do its business Suggests is (currently) interpreted as | > Depends. | | No, as we check installtion without suggetsed packages. I would do the same for Suggests. Test without them. | > As Thomas pointed out, Suggests: seems to be overloaded already to two | > distinct use cases. | | Yes, and I know that a package should work without the suggestes | installed, we do not disagree there. Hooray. Agreement. | So we agree that it would be nice to test with and without installed | suggested packages? And the checks should give fine results in both | cases, right? I would suggest to modify the behaviour to test without suggested packages as a default. Should the suggested package be present on the box a test could be conditional. A side effect would be to make things faster as fewer packages are involved. 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
