Gábor Csárdi

Or we can drop the High Sierra support, and implement creating a pak installation with self-contained dependencies, but not system dependencies. I.e. what should happen on CRAN (and elsewhere) on...

I am not sure why this happens, this part is in flux, but install distro manually from first.

I am not sure if pak is mangling the password out of the URL, I would think not. Does `download.file()` work on your `https://user:[email protected]/myrepository` repo directly? E.g. can you run...

The reprex does not work any more, but I am pretty sure that this is https://github.com/r-lib/pkgdepends/issues/227

OTOH, once the new pak is on CRAN, we could make `pak::pak("pak")` work properly, to avoid confusion.

Yeah, we could parse os-release better. Are these fields standardized? I remember seeing slightly different ones on another Ubuntu-derivative distro.

Btw. did you turn on system requirements installation manually? Or did you by any change use https://github.com/r-lib/rig which turned it on automatically?

> It was turned on by using rig. Is there an easy way to turn it off? The simplest is probably to reinstall R with `rig add ... --without-sysreqs`. Or...

@psychelzh that seems like a different error, so please open a new issue, and also include how you installed pak, as your pak installation seems to be broken.

Yeah, I am not sure what this involves, either. Maybe some lower level API call in renv that lets us put a package in the cache? @kevinushey?