R-devel going away

[Warren Togami]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> This email serves as an announcement that I plan to swallow up R-devel
> into the base R package. Why?
> 
> * It is causing no end of user complaints. The typical R user expects to
> be able to do a "CPAN" (really, I should say "CRAN") style package
> install through the R interface:
> 

Isn't this exactly counter to the logic behind splitting perl into 
perl-devel, that ended up angering jpo to the point of him quitting Fedora?

The rest of this explanation seems to make sense.  But does this mean we 
make a mistake earlier in the perl split?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com