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On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca> wrote: |
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> tl;dr: python package has nodejs dependencies, we don't have a mechanism |
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> like distutils.eclass to install those system-wide. |
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> I gave this a try some time ago and was bummed down by some things. I dont |
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like nodejs enough, and npm devs seems to not care about centrally/globally |
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installed packages. There are some npm packages that have to be modified so |
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they can work when globally installed and it gets boring after a while. npm |
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packages tend to be really small so one package can have a really high |
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number of deps. |
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If anybody is interested in this, check out my repo with npm packages[0] |
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and a really simple g-npm tool[1] to generate ebuilds for them. These tools |
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might be outdated cause I don't use nodejs anymore and I dont care much |
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about it. |
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Feel free to ping me if you have questions. |
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Cheers, |
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[0] https://github.com/neurogeek/gentoo-overlay (I might have something |
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more recent somewhere) |
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[1] https://github.com/neurogeek/g-npm |
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Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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