Bug#767043: ESS should not depend on R

[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 about --no-install-recommends
| probably knows what he's doing.)

I concede the point. I just looked it up for confirmation.
 
| > the minor inconvenience you experience via the forced install of
| > r-base-core.
| 
| Fair enough.

The difference is that Depends implies "use for configuration" which is not
true.  Recommends is for "strong not absolute dependency" and "list packages
... found tohether ... in all but unusual installations".

As you pointed out, this fits the issue. I'll make the change.

Dirk

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