On 28 October 2014 at 01:54, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: | > | Package ess depends on r-base-core, which is a 19MB download, and rather | > | useless for people programming in Julia. Please downgrade this to | > | a Recommends. | | > I disagree. | | May I most humbly request a slightly more verbose expression of your opinion?
The vast majority of users of ESS deploy it with R, and expect M-x R to work. That is worth more (due to the number of potential users) than the minor inconvenience you experience via the forced install of r-base-core. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org