[Fedora-r-devel-list] Guidelines and R cmd check

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Oct 26 13:08:55 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 00:52 +0200, pingou wrote:
> I agree that the r cmd check make sure that all the dependencies are 
> present, but make sure that they are is (to my opinion) also a
> packager 
> and reviewer job, and is also quite easy with the DESCRIPTION file.
> 
> What is your opinion on that point ?

I say, use your best judgement. If the dependencies are really
"suggestions", then don't force them as BuildRequires/Requires just to
make R CMD CHECK happy. Comment out the check, and explain why in a spec
file comment.

~spot





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