[Rd] The Depends: field of a package is now used by library()

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Wolfgang Huber wrote:

> > On Thursday 12 August 2004 07:34, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > 
> >>In R-devel, the Depends: field in the DESCRIPTION file is now used by
> >>library() to load the named packages before the current package, and
> >>also to set up the environment to save images and prepare for lazy
> >>loading.
> > 
> 
> Are circular dependencies allowed?
> Or do they need to be broken, e.g. by replacing one of the edges in a 
> loop by a "suggests"?

They need to be broken.  I only encountered them where Suggests: was 
appropriate.

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