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From: "Herb Miller Jr." <herb@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-dev@l.g.o" <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category?
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:44:06
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In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category? by "Michał Górny"
1 Indeed I did. Thank you for pointing that out. It had been a long night.
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4 Herb Miller Jr.
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7 On 03/20/2018 02:34 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
8 > W dniu wto, 20.03.2018 o godzinie 07∶50 -0400, użytkownik Herb Miller
9 > Jr. napisał:
10 >> When I did my homework on creating nodejs ebuilds (not nodejs itself but
11 >> packages written in node), it seems the topic has come up a few times in
12 >> the past but the time commitment and general disorganization of upstream
13 >> has scared off any serious attempts at packaging.
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15 >> Seeing as there has been interest in nodejs packages, and in the end we
16 >> could be talking 400-600+ packages, would it be possible to create
17 >> dev-libs/nodejs category? I would be happy to write and proxy-maintain
18 >> ebuilds for a large number of them to get things in motion. I've already
19 >> opened pull request #7427 [1] for chalk and its dependencies. I'm aiming
20 >> to build up to all the dependencies needed for Visual Studio Code OSS.
21 > I think you meant 'dev-nodejs'.
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23 >> [1]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7427
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26 >> Herb Miller Jr.
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