[R-sig-Fedora] R 4.0.0

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 05:46, Tom Callaway <tcallawa using redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Thinking out loud here... do we want to have some macro magic to embed a
> dependency on an R(ABI) provides? Where R 4.0.0 would provide R(ABI) = 4
> and all R packages built against it would pick up Requires: R(ABI) = 4 ?

Note that recompilation is sometimes required too for minor version
changes, so the virtual provides should include the minor version to
be in the safe side.

> I don't suppose we need it, since the likelihood of someone installing R
> module packages but not updating R is low, but I wanted to throw it out
> there.

Or updating R and not updating R packages. Even if the chances are
low, I think it's a cheap thing to add and would make the installation
more robust to this kind of issue.

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Iñaki Úcar