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authorRicardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>2015-09-03 11:41:07 +0200
committerRicardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>2015-09-04 11:55:16 +0200
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gnu: r: Drop IcedTea from inputs.
* gnu/packages/statistics.scm (r)[inputs]: Remove "icedtea6".
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu')
-rw-r--r--gnu/packages/statistics.scm11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
index b84c48dde9..b1cc5cf7ae 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/statistics.scm
@@ -84,6 +84,16 @@
"--with-system-pcre"
"--with-system-tre"
"--with-system-xz")))
+ ;; R has some support for Java. When the JDK is available at configure
+ ;; time environment variables pointing to the JDK will be recorded under
+ ;; $R_HOME/etc and ./tools/getsp.java will be compiled which is used by "R
+ ;; CMD javareconf". "R CMD javareconf" appears to only be used to update
+ ;; the recorded environment variables in $R_HOME/etc. Refer to
+ ;; https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Java-support
+ ;; for additional information.
+
+ ;; As the JDK is a rather large input with only very limited effects on R,
+ ;; we decided to drop it.
(native-inputs
`(("bzip2" ,bzip2)
("perl" ,perl)
@@ -97,7 +107,6 @@
("cairo" ,cairo)
("gfortran" ,gfortran)
("icu4c" ,icu4c)
- ("icedtea6" ,icedtea6 "jdk")
("lapack" ,lapack)
("libjpeg" ,libjpeg)
("libpng" ,libpng)