R devel - May 2021 - Testing R build when using --without-recommended-packages?

On 4 May 2021 at 11:07, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
| Thanks, but I don't understand. That's what I usually do when I build
| R with 'recommended' packages.  But here, I explicitly do *not* want
| to build and install 'recommended' packages with the R installation.
| So, I'm going down the --without-recommended-packages path on purpose
| and I'm looking for a way to validate such an installation.

I understand the desire, and am sympathetic, but for all+ years I have been
building R (or R-devel) from source this has never been optional. Nor has any
optionality (for the build of R has a whole) been documented, at least as far
as I know.

Dirk

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https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

FWIW,

$ ./configure --help
...
  --with-recommended-packages
                          use/install recommended R packages [yes]

/Henrik

On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:17 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
>
> On 4 May 2021 at 11:07, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> | Thanks, but I don't understand. That's what I usually do when I
build
> | R with 'recommended' packages.  But here, I explicitly do *not*
want
> | to build and install 'recommended' packages with the R
installation.
> | So, I'm going down the --without-recommended-packages path on purpose
> | and I'm looking for a way to validate such an installation.
>
> I understand the desire, and am sympathetic, but for all+ years I have been
> building R (or R-devel) from source this has never been optional. Nor has
any
> optionality (for the build of R has a whole) been documented, at least as
far
> as I know.
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org