So, I decided to update from 4.4.3 -> 4.5.0. Updating all packages in
one shot (selecting all of the offered updates) failed, on all my
machines (Linux, Windows - lots of RAM, lots of CPU speed). So, tried
the updates a few at a time. Didn't take me long to discover that the
'culprit' was the BH packages. For some reason, it takes a *long* time
for it to download/update or download/install. Even installing from a
local download took a long time. So long, that on my Windows machines,
the Rgui simply stopped responding. At all. Had to kill the process
manually, and try again.
So, in case anyone else runs into this (I've replicated the problem on 5
different machines - 3 Windows, 2 Linux)
1\ if BH is included in a slew of updates you're trying to apply all at
once, it might clobber everything because its choking on BH, kill RGui
on my Windows machines. Less of an issue on my Linux boxes (good old
CLI), but still...
2\ even BH alone requires some patience. On a high-end machine (24
threads, 64 Gb RAM, etc etc) took almost 8 minutes to download/update.
Everything else (even big suckers like terra) took only seconds on said
machine. But BH?
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