On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:07:45PM +0200, pingou wrote: > > > Maybe the new feature of R 2.6 could help on that point... > > > R CMD INSTALL --preclean cleans up the sources after a > > previous installation (as if that had used --clean) before > > attempting to install. > > Should we use it ? (in the sense that now that R implements it) Then R CMD INSTALL --preclean would be called in a pre script or the like? rpm already takes care of removing old files? -- Pat