bug#26095: R: do not build recommended packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

>>> What do you think about having an "r" and
>>> "r-without-recommended-packages" instead of
>>> "r-with-recommended-packages" and "r", respectively?
>
> […]
>
>> Alternatively, we could change the r-build-system to use “r-minimal” by
>> default, rename “r” to “r-minimal” (both variable and package name), and
>> then rename “r-with-recommended-packages” to just “r” (both variable and
>> package name).
>
> I went ahead and implemented this in a follow-up commit.  (Doing this
> all at once turned out to be a little too cluttered.)  I’ve pushed this
> to master with commit 2d7c4ae3ee83841ef827a160b0d23c1d10d2570d.

Great work.  It’s good to see more modularity!

Ludo’.