I appreciate the work all the developers and maintainers do on Gentoo, but updates on ebuilds for dev-lang/R seem to be often very delayed. I just built a system with Gentoo, and installed R 1.6.2 (the latest for which an ebuild is available), but I can't install many of the packages because they require 1.7.0, which came out Apr 16. I like to keep my R installation current. Should I try and put together an ebuild for 1.7.0?
*** Bug 21734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Naive version bump compiles. I know absolutely nothing about R, so somebody should reopen this bug if we're missing some sort of major functionality.
Well, my portage skills are rudimentary, but I use R a lot, so if you like I can take over maintainance of this package.
Irritatingly, we don't yet have a reasonable method for users to maintain ebuilds. That said, if you don't mind, I would very much appreciate your assistance.
I built the package and it seems ok as far as I've used it. I assume that when you built yours you did make check This tests nearly everything. I tried it here and got no reports of errors, so everything looks fine! Thanks very much.
