Gábor Csárdi

You cannot use pak to install itself. If you want to install the dev version, you can install a nightly build from [pak.r-lib.org/reference/install.html#nightly-builds](https://pak.r-lib.org/reference/install.html#nightly-builds)

You need to add a repository that actually has source packages if you want to install packages from source. P3M only has binary packages. E.g.: ```r getOption("repos") # CRAN #...

You can set the env vars before starting R or before loading pak and then they will be inherited in the subprocess.

Yes, I would like to have a way to prioritize repositories, but it would be another way, as we don't use `available.packages()`.

What kind of filters do you use in `available_packages_filters`?

So you basically want to be able to specify arbitrary conditions on arbitrary fields from your package metadata. This is certainly possible, but needs quite a lot of changes, as...

What's the output of `file.info()` for one of these files, from Linux? What's the output of calling `stat` for one of these files from the shell? (Or call `system("stat ")`...

So it seems like the birth time is not available in Linux, and fs fills in the zero epoch. It should probably be `NA` instead.

Seems like a bug indeed.

That sounds like a good idea. Would you like to submit a PR? (No pressure and no need to worry about rebuilding the docs, which is a pain in the...