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Show extra dependencies from `Config/Needs/*` fields #230

Open eitsupi opened 1 year ago

eitsupi commented 1 year ago

R-universe has the ability to display reverse dependent packages, but I was wondering if it is possible to display information on other fields Config/Needs/* (e.g. Config/Needs/website) here. (Related to r-lib/remotes#459)

This is a feature that CRAN does not have, but it would be great to be able to notify people about packages they need, for example during development.

eitsupi commented 1 year ago

Sorry, I should have posted this in the discussion...... (I realized too late that discussions are enabled in this repository)

jeroen commented 1 year ago

Yes we could do that. The information is already in the /json api e.g: https://r-lib.r-universe.dev/pkgdown/json. We could display it on the front-end.