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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:27:49
Message-Id: 20180321142552.603c178b@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category? by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:48:29 -0400
2 Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > There's a real technical problem hidden in there. Since npm
5 > (recursively!) bundles every dependency, nobody worries about
6 > compatibility in their JS packages. You'll quickly find yourself stuck.
7
8 Honestly, I expected at some point we'd reach for slotting and normalization,
9 and recursive trees of symlinks....
10
11 eg:
12 /usr/lib/nodejs/<packagename>/<version>/lib/<dependency-name> -> /usr/lib/nodejs/<packagename>/<version>
13
14 Or something like that.
15
16 So you'd wind up with
17
18 /usr/lib/nodejs/foo/1.0/lib/bar -> /usr/lib/nodejs/bar/1.0
19 /usr/lib/nodejs/foo/1.0/lib/baz -> /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/2.0
20 /usr/lib/nodejs/bar/1.0/lib/baz -> /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/1.0
21 /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/1.0/...
22 /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/2.0/...
23
24 Or something like that. But I imagine constructing such a thing a
25 rather painful exercise.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category? "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>