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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-lang/v8 SONAME
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:05:17
Message-Id: 4CCA8E40.6020803@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] dev-lang/v8 SONAME by James Rowe
1 On 10/27/10 8:59 PM, James Rowe wrote:
2 > * "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." (phajdan.jr@g.o) wrote:
3 >> There is one issue that keeps dev-lang/v8 in hard mask and prevents its
4 >> broader usage (I think www-client/chromium could start using it).
5 >
6 > Thanks for working on this. I use v8 quite a bit, and being able to
7 > simply depend on the ebuilds would make life easier.
8
9 You're welcome! I started the work because people asked for it.
10
11 I'm curious: do you have some more ebuilds using v8? It'd be great to
12 add them to the portage tree at some point, if possible. Or maybe
13 sunrise overlay...
14
15 > One question: Are the v8 ebuilds going to be switched to use some kind
16 > of snapshot tarballs before they're unmasked?
17
18 Yes, I think it's going to stay hard masked until I resolve issues like
19 this. subversion shouldn't be required to install v8.

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