Re: [Bioc-devel] System Requirements for imported packages

2016-04-20 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
What Martin is hinting at, is that if you end up depending on a package which is really hard to install, your users indirectly will suffer. And that should be a consideration when you choose to depend on another package. I have certainly had situations where I have tried to avoid depending on pac

Re: [Bioc-devel] System Requirements for imported packages

2016-04-20 Thread Martin Morgan
On 04/20/2016 12:14 PM, Zach Skidmore wrote: Hi All, I'm curious what the preferred method is for dealing with System Requirements originating from an imported package. For example, if I had a package that imported `biomaRt` which itself imports `XML` which has the SystemRequirement `libxml2`

[Bioc-devel] System Requirements for imported packages

2016-04-20 Thread Zach Skidmore
Hi All, I'm curious what the preferred method is for dealing with System Requirements originating from an imported package. For example, if I had a package that imported `biomaRt` which itself imports `XML` which has the SystemRequirement `libxml2` how is that dealt with? Are package installe