Re: [PATCH] gnu: r-curl: Respect CURL_CA_BUNDLE variable.

[Leo Famulari]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 04:56:59PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> * gnu/packages/web.scm (r-curl)[arguments]: Add phase
> "allow-CURL_CA_BUNDLE".
> ---
>  gnu/packages/web.scm | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/web.scm b/gnu/packages/web.scm
> index 87bc3e2..321a250 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/web.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/web.scm
> @@ -3168,6 +3168,19 @@ applications.")
>                 (base32
>                  "1p24bcaf1wbfdi1r9ibyyp0l0zp4kzs4g3srv8vikz93hycm1qa6"))))
>      (build-system r-build-system)
> +    (arguments
> +     `(#:phases
> +       (modify-phases %standard-phases
> +         ;; The environment variable CURL_CA_BUNDLE is only respected when
> +         ;; running Windows, so we disable the platform checks.

It seems like a weird restriction. Could you see what the upstream
maintainers think about making this change?