Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 October 2014 at 08:59, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | severity 767043 minor | thanks | | > The vast majority of users of ESS deploy it with R, and expect M-x R to work. | | AFAIK, that's what Recommends is for -- install by default, don't prevent | uninstallation. (The rare user who knows a

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-28 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
severity 767043 minor thanks > The vast majority of users of ESS deploy it with R, and expect M-x R to work. AFAIK, that's what Recommends is for -- install by default, don't prevent uninstallation. (The rare user who knows about --no-install-recommends probably knows what he's doing.) > the mi

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> | Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather > | useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to > | a Recommends. > I disagree. May I most humbly request a slightly more verbose expression of your opinion? -- Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 October 2014 at 01:54, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | > | Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather | > | useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to | > | a Recommends. | | > I disagree. | | May I most humbly request a slightly more verbo

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 October 2014 at 00:33, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | Package: ess | Version: 14.09-1 | | Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather | useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to | a Recommends. I disagree. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuett

Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

2014-10-27 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
Package: ess Version: 14.09-1 Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to a Recommends. -- Juliusz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib