Reason for the filtered dependencies?

[verdurin]

@pescobar - is there a specific reason why you include the filter deps line in the supplied easybuild.cfg file?

This caused a problem when building R for me, because libxml2 lacked the 'load zlib' line, and the system zlib was too old.

[pescobar]

in our site we use filter-deps and that's why I included it in the easybuild config.

I am aware of this issue, what I use to do is override the --filter-deps options in the command line when installing R. Or you can also change the easybuild config file to use --hide-deps instead of --filter-deps