[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2spec new release

[Pierre-Yves]

George N. White III wrote:
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> In researching the possibility of having userland rpm, there was a
> suggestion that
> dummy packages be created for the base system rpms, so that dependencies will
> be resolved against the system versions.   This raises the possibility of a
> tool to create dummy rpm's for packages installed by R.   That way, rather than
> the user having to check dependencies across 2 different package management
> systems, there could a command to create dummy rpms for manually built CRAN
> packages.  These could be "installed" so they would be used by rpm to resolve
> dependencies in pre-built Fedora rpms.

Would make a fake/dummy RPM be any better than directly package the RPM ?
I don't think it decrease the amount of work :/

Or we need something that add the entry to rpmdb while we set up a 
package using R. But then what about the package installed in 
$HOME/R/library ?
Two users will not have the same libraries available while the database 
will say that the library is installed.

I know I bring more questions than answers here, but I don't what the 
best solution would be.

Best regards,

Pierre