[R-pkg-team] Bug in r-base and r-cran-rcppparallel

[Johannes Ranke]

> | > The documentation does not list a search behaviour for bare library
> | > names on non-Windows systems.  So completely ignoring the system library
> | > paths is kind of weird.
> | 
> | I can see that it looks weird - but is it a bug?
> 
> Exactly. It has been like that since the 1990s 

Mhm, I am not sure I am seeing an argument here :)

> when R's packaging system was
> set up. We have hundreds of per package shared libraries. Even the first
> one I packaged for Debian (r-cran-rodbc, in 2003 if memory serves) used
> that.
> 
> "A feature not a bug" :)

Or a missing feature, given that it was proposed to solve a problem...

Johannes