Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

[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 minor inconvenience you experience via the forced install of
> r-base-core.

Fair enough.

-- Juliusz