Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category?

[Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 14:48:29 -0400
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> There's a real technical problem hidden in there. Since npm
> (recursively!) bundles every dependency, nobody worries about
> compatibility in their JS packages. You'll quickly find yourself stuck.

Honestly, I expected at some point we'd reach for slotting and normalization,
and recursive trees of symlinks....

eg: 
	/usr/lib/nodejs/<packagename>/<version>/lib/<dependency-name>  -> /usr/lib/nodejs/<packagename>/<version>

Or something like that.

So you'd wind up with

	/usr/lib/nodejs/foo/1.0/lib/bar  -> /usr/lib/nodejs/bar/1.0
	/usr/lib/nodejs/foo/1.0/lib/baz  -> /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/2.0
        /usr/lib/nodejs/bar/1.0/lib/baz  -> /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/1.0
        /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/1.0/...
        /usr/lib/nodejs/baz/2.0/...

Or something like that. But I imagine constructing such a thing a
rather painful exercise.



 

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