Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. On Arch and on Debian (both x86-64), when trying to install devtools via install.packages("devtools"), errors are returned, namely

Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘textshaping’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘ragg’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘pkgdown’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("devtools") :
  installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status

I tried following what is suggested in this stackexchange post but this did not work for me. Besides, next to my local system (where the suggestion does not work despite having installed the external libraries like fribidi), I also want to install devtools on a remote cluster, where I do not have admin rights. On that cluster, I can not even install the external libraries because that seems to require sudo-rights. Usually packages added within a package manager do not require to install anything external but pull all necessary dependencies (also of libraries of other languages) themselves. Why does this not happen here and what is one supposed to do?

Describe the solution you'd like The package manager should pull by itself all dependencies needed during installation for devtools.