[R-sig-Fedora] R-devel going away

[Hans de Goede]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 16:34 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote:
>> Better solutions:
>>
>> * add it to comps.xml
>> * move 'R' to R-core, and add 'R' which depends on 'R-core' +
>> 'R-devel'
>>
>>
>>> * The size of the R-devel is tiny, about 440K installed.
>> You miss its dependencies:
>>
>> bzip2-devel
>> gcc-c++
>> gcc-gfortran
>> libICE-devel
>> libSM-devel
>> libX11-devel
>> libXmu-devel
>> libXt-devel
>> libjpeg-devel
>> libpng-devel
>> ncurses-devel
>> pkgconfig
>> readline-devel
>> tcl-devel
>> tetex-latex
>> texinfo
>> tk-devel
> 
> These are very good points, thanks Enrico. What would people think about
> doing the suggested R/R-core/R-devel split instead? Users would still be
> able to get everything with yum install R, it would meet the guidelines,
> and minimal installs with R can simply have R-core.
> 

+1

(esp after seeing the R-devel Requirements)

Regards,

Hans