On 15 January 2011 at 18:30, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: | Package: r-base-core | Version: 2.12.1-1 | Severity: minor | | | Hey Dirk, | | I like R, and am looking forward to using it to | explore gigabytes of data. | | I happened to notice that several R.css files | remained after purging all R packages. | | They were in ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.12/, | ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.10/, | /usr/lib/R/site-library, and | /usr/local/lib/R/site-library. | | Then I noticed that the 2.0 SERIES NEWS at | | http://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/OONEWS | | says | | `R.css' is copied to all library directories.
That's upstream behaviour. Talk to R Core. My policy is to do the least amount of intervention and change that is sensible as R *works* and people have expectations that it works on Debian the same way. Your gb of data are a red herring. I see see no actionable bug report here. Dirk | I'm concerned that these files aren't removed by | normal package management. | | Or, perhaps they shouldn't be copied to all | library directories in the first place. | | I'll trust your judgement as to whether this is | important enough to fix, and if so, what exactly | to do about it. | | All the best, | ~K | | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: lenny/sid | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') | Architecture: i386 (i686) | | Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash | | Versions of packages r-base-core depends on: | ii libatlas3gf-base [libl 3.6.0-22 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra | ii libblas3gf [libblas.so 1.2-2 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3 | ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib | ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra | ii libgfortran3 4.3.3-5 Runtime library for GNU Fortran ap | ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.0-1 The GLib library of C routines | ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library | ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG | ii liblapack3gf [liblapac 3.2.0-2 library of linear algebra routines | ii liblzma2 5.0.0-2 XZ-format compression library | ii libpango1.0-0 1.26.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio | ii libpaper-utils 1.1.23+nmu1 library for handling paper charact | ii libpcre3 7.8-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi | ii libpng12-0 1.2.35-1 PNG library - runtime | ii libreadline6 6.0-5 GNU readline and history libraries | ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library | ii libtiff4 3.6.1-1.1 Tag Image File Format library | ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library | ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar | ii libxss1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library | ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library | ii perl 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction | ii tcl8.5 8.5.6-3 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8 | ii tk8.5 8.5.6-3 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.5 - | ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv | ii unzip 6.0-4 De-archiver for .zip files | ii xdg-utils 1.0-1 Desktop integration utilities from | ii zip 2.30-6 Archiver for .zip files | ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime | | Versions of packages r-base-core recommends: | pn r-base-dev <none> (no description available) | pn r-doc-html <none> (no description available) | pn r-recommended <none> (no description available) | | Versions of packages r-base-core suggests: | ii ess 5.3.11-1 Emacs mode for statistical program | pn r-base-html <none> (no description available) | pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none> (no description available) | pn r-mathlib <none> (no description available) | | -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
