R SIG Debian - Aug 2021 - Configure error: checking if libcurl supports https... no

On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 19:55:12 -0500
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Rolf,
> 
> Asking here is the Right Thing (TM) but I am in at this moment
> between two differen things (one of them being dinner...) so I have
> to come back to this ...
<SNIP>

Thanks Dirk.  I might try removing libcurl4-gnutls-dev again,
and installing libcurl4-openssl-dev again, while I'm waiting to hear
more from you.  Don't like my chances, but.
> So maybe my preference is on the wrong side of the tracks too. I
> don't fully understand why these cannot coexist...
Sheesh!  If *you* don't understand, what hope is there for the rest of
us, me in particular?

cheers,

Rolf


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Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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Rolf,

I am truly sorry but I am getting lost in your original message. Could you
follow-up and describe (concisely, if possible) what your question is?  Is it
 - installing 4.1.1 or 4.1.0
 - developing a package of yours
 - installing a package ?

You seem to interweave a few strands in ways that make it less clear exactly
what is holding you back.

On 29 August 2021 at 15:11, Rolf Turner wrote:
| > So maybe my preference is on the wrong side of the tracks too. I
| > don't fully understand why these cannot coexist...
| 
| Sheesh!  If *you* don't understand, what hope is there for the rest of
| us, me in particular?

Sometimes it is a simple lack of resources / time / effort / merit. Something
I meant to tackle is to allow r-base-core to coexist with a (to be written
package) r-base-devel but doing that _cleanly_ with the expect robustness is
a lot of work so I have yet to do it, even after ~ 20 years of working on R
and the r-{base,doc}-* packages as well as many r-cran-* ones.

Dirk

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On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:11:33 +1200
Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

<SNIP>
> ... I might try removing libcurl4-gnutls-dev again,
> and installing libcurl4-openssl-dev again, while I'm waiting to hear
> more from you.  Don't like my chances, but.
<SNIP>

I tried this just now.  No help at all.  I was right not to like my
chances!

cheers,

Rolf

-- 
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
Phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 88276