Re: [PATCH] gnu: r: Update to 3.3.1.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> This obviously depends on the quality of the importers, but I think it
> wouldn’t take much effort to make this a reality.  The main problem with
> offering magic like this is that it must be reliable or else it would
> just be frustrating users.

It’s indeed doable (we just need to generate a <package> on the fly,
which is essentially what importers do), and was part of the plan.

But as you note, the likely problem is that some packages won’t build,
for instance because we have incomplete or inaccurate dependency
information, and may be poorly integrated.

Nevertheless it’s worth trying!

Ludo’.