Thanks! Good point about the compiler toolchain.on Alpine Linux,
which tends to be small, gcc can be less than 100MB, so still might
matter a bit
Gabor
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 1:44 PM Tomas Kalibera wrote:
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> Well, this only applies to source installs of packages that have some
> files w
Well, this only applies to source installs of packages that have some
files with the special extension, so on systems where a compiler
toolchain needs to be installed, so the image cannot be really tiny,
anyway. But ok, I've made stage install use "file" only when it is
available. When it isn't
The new staged package installation shells out to the 'file' utility
on Unix systems:
https://github.com/wch/r-source/blob/31ee14c620eb1b939acd322f3b5617f998aab8e8/src/library/tools/R/install.R#L578
Although 'file' is usually present on most Unix systems, it might be
missing from small Docker cont
