[Bioc-devel] affypdnn: Request for moving "Depends" packages to "Suggests"

[Robert Gentleman]

I would certainly like to second that view - in general folks should 
spend some time, before each release looking at dependencies and trying 
to reduce them, if at all possible.
Of course some of the issues are caused by the rather over aggressive 
way that R CMD check deals with some-time dependencies, but there are no 
easy ways (yet) to deal with that.

best wishes
   Robert


Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this one is mainly for the maintainer (Laurent Gautier), but I post it
> to bioc-devel also as request to minimize package dependencies in R
> and BioC in general:
> 
> The current DESCRIPTION of 'affypdnn' is:
> 
> Package: affypdnn
> Version: 1.14.3
> Depends: R (>= 2.3.0), affy (>= 1.5), affydata, hgu95av2probe
> 
> Could you please update this to:
> 
> Package: affypdnn
> Version: 1.14.3
> Depends: R (>= 2.3.0), affy (>= 1.5)
> Suggests: affydata, hgu95av2probe
> 
> and use request("affydata") and request("hgu95av2probe") where those
> two are actually needed?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Henrik
> 
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