On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 12:02:42 PM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > On 2016-10-27 11:49, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 11:41:20 AM UTC+2, Jeroen Demeyer > wrote: > > > > On 2016-10-27 11:29, Francois Bissey wrote: > > > R package system include downloading facility from repositories. > > > > That's fine but it should be possible to just run R without it's > > packaging system. > > > > Then I suggest a new solution: > > [666] : > > * patch R if curl (with https support) is not there and make curl an > > optional package, > > * not patch R if curl (with https support) is ther. > > Conditionally patching is really bad because it cannot be pushed upstream. > > Instead, in proper autoconfig style, we should conditionally build the > parts requiring curl. That is, change the logic in the R build system to > build R without the packaging system if curl is not available. > Upstream R devs might be somewhat uncooperative. I don't plan on pushing anything upstream.
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