Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

[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 verbose expression of your opinion?

The vast majority of users of ESS deploy it with R, and expect M-x R to work.

That is worth more (due to the number of potential users) than the minor
inconvenience you experience via the forced install of r-base-core.  

Dirk

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