I have been looking at the set of R packages in pkgsrc and have discovered that there are what appear to be needless differences in organization. For example, a small minority (see the list in the attached file) define DISTNAME and use BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.R directly. The attached file (from converters/R-base64enc) is one example. In contrast, most R packages set R_PKGNAME and R_PKGVER, and are otherwise very stylized. The attached file (adapted for converters/R-base64enc) illustrates the typical style. I have verified that in this particular case, the second, more typical, version works fine. Is there a reason not to update the set of these atypical packages (19 of 151 R packages) to follow the typical pattern? Does anyone know why these packages differ from the norm? Cheers, Brook
converters/R-base64enc databases/R-RSQLite devel/R-bindr devel/R-blob devel/R-glue devel/R-inline devel/R-iterators devel/R-magrittr devel/R-plogr graphics/R-Cairo graphics/R-gridExtra lang/R-codetools lang/R-sourcetools math/R-DBI math/R-date math/R-igraph math/R-moonsun math/R-prettyunits textproc/R-htmltools
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