Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:01:21 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Not much reason to have */R-cran-* ports Message-ID: <791f8a7f-7f3e-2070-0be3-50494b1b2801@rawbw.com>
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There are more than 250 R-cran-* ports. They are R packages. The thing is that R has its own, very capable package manager which can find packages, download them, check hash, build, find upgrades. Every R-cran-* port can be easily installed through R itself, so there is really no need for these ports. These ports need to be maintained, updated, looked into when they break. This duplicates functionality that is already nicely supported by R itself, and only unnecessarily clogs the ports system. One only needs to click twice in RStudio to update all outdated R packages, it's so easy. FreeBSD should consider banning and removing them, in the same way as Go libraries are banned. Yuri
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