Gábor Csárdi

We might want to fix this in pkginstall as well, if it also happens there.

Have you tried that suggestion?

I suggest you use the `v2` tag of `r-lib/actions` which should not have these issues: https://github.com/r-lib/actions#releases-and-tags

If you trust yourself that this is a bug in remotes, then it seems so.

We have plans both to improve the performance, and also to have better fallback, but both will take a couple of weeks unfortunately.

To make sure that we are on the same page: - what is the code that you are running? - what is the output? - what do you think the...

Thanks, reproducible example: ```r setwd(tempdir()) download.file("https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/base64enc/DESCRIPTION", "DESCRIPTION") options(repos = "address_of_a_cranlike_repo") remotes::dev_package_deps( repos = c(getOption("repos"), CRAN = "https://cran.rstudio.com"), dependencies = "Enhances" ) ``` ``` Needs update ----------------------------- package installed available is_cran...

It is very unlikely that we'll add this to remotes, as it would probably need big changes. Also, it seems that the issue is in `install.packages()`, or probably both there...

It is unlikely that this would be implemented, because it is not very hard to set the `repos`, and setting it is a better solution, anyway.

This should work well usually: ```r remotes::install_cran( "goodpress", repos = c("https://maelle.r-universe.dev/", getOption("repos")) ) ``` Maybe in pak we could have a way to specify that a package is in a...