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Hello Herb, |
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"Herb Miller Jr." <gentooherb@×××××.com> writes: |
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> When I did my homework on creating nodejs ebuilds (not nodejs itself |
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> but packages written in node), it seems the topic has come up a few |
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> times in the past but the time commitment and general disorganization |
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> of upstream has scared off any serious attempts at packaging. |
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> Seeing as there has been interest in nodejs packages, and in the end |
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> we could be talking 400-600+ packages, would it be possible to create |
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> dev-libs/nodejs category? I would be happy to write and proxy-maintain |
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> ebuilds for a large number of them to get things in motion. I've |
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> already opened pull request #7427 [1] for chalk and its |
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> dependencies. I'm aiming to build up to all the dependencies needed |
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> for Visual Studio Code OSS. |
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> [1]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7427 |
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Your effort will be much appreciated. I support your plan. |
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Should the category be dev-js intead? To me, node.js is but an |
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implementation of javascript runtime. |
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BTW, for the 400-500 packages, are you going to create them with a |
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generator script? |
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Cheers, |
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Benda |
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