[R-pkg-devel] Handling Not-Always-Needed Dependencies?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

See eg https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

We have other big fish to fry.  Eg many packages have LinkingTo: BH (as Boost
headers are indeed awesome) but this 120 mb (!!) payload is needed _once_
during package compilation / installation and never again afterwards.  So
Build-Depends: would be a nice addition too.

Dirk

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