Central Packrat versioned library
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Description
Packrat has been a godsend for stability going forward. With many shiny apps built on a host of different package versions, it allows me to just forget about dangers of updating.
However, each packrat repo adds a lot of overhead (I have an app that takes up 0.8 gigs, 0.5 of that is packrat, the rest is basically cached data).
It seems like it would make more sense to have a central library that has many package versions for each package, and then have the packrat only store a list of which versions in the central library the application needs, and check out there.
Is this possible to do with current packrat?
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Research direction
Start by reviewing Packrat's current dependency storage and library management behavior; the issue does not name specific files, tests, or entry points. Determine whether a shared library containing multiple package versions can support per-application version selection, and document the resulting feasibility and design requirements.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100