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Hi, During my recent r2sundials development, I've came across a strange test failing during 'R CMD check' exclusively on win R-devel which I could reproduce with a minimal example that I present here. The toy packages testarma1 [1] and testarma2 [2] are minimal modifications of a skeleton package produced by RcppArmadillo.package.skeleton(). They are almost identical. The first

...it clears up a little. A bit more context: One can be more fine-grained on Depends. And Debian does that, and R sometimes followed Debian's model of declaring dependencies. One element we are missing here is to distinguish between _build-time_ needs (we call that Build-Depends: in Debian) and _run_time_ needs. We currently only have the latter as Depends:, which for example pains a million dplyr users on Windows who have to download 120mb worth of our BH package because it is used to _build_ the binary zipfile, but not thereafter. That is a wart. Now, _LinkingTo_ always implies build-dependecie...