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From: Elvis Pranskevichus <elvis@magic.io>
To: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org>
Cc: Alexander Revin <lyssdod@gmail.com>, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Electron external dependencies
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:17:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2159067.9nhGXrkf87@klinga.prans.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160817220553.05e6dd66@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec>

On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 10:05:53 PM EDT Lars Wendler wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:27:40 +0300 Alexander Revin wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Is there any plan to make electron more modular package? Right now it
> >builds its own protobuf, mesa and v8 (and maybe much more). These
> >packages do exist in a tree, maybe it's possible to reuse them?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Alex
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> I suggest you open a bug about this in our bugzilla [1].
> 
> Use something like "dev-util/electron uses bundled libs" as subject and
> describe the issue briefly.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org

Electron is, essentially, modified Chromium.  We do the same unbundling as the 
Chromium ebuild for things that _can_ be unbundled.  Some dependencies cannot 
be unbundled for various reasons (modifications, reliance on internal headers, 
etc.)

                                 Elvis


  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-17 20:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-17 16:27 [gentoo-dev] Electron external dependencies Alexander Revin
2016-08-17 20:05 ` Lars Wendler
2016-08-17 20:17   ` Elvis Pranskevichus [this message]
2016-08-17 20:27     ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
     [not found]       ` <CAM+zL-fe5jiKUrRH6er5vqJXRpHi38tNVm5c4ryruu4O4HOX1Q@mail.gmail.com>
2016-08-17 21:26         ` Fwd: " Alexander Revin

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