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

["M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@iee.org>]

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On 21/03/18 01:27, Kent Fredric wrote:
> 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.
>
.... Said the voice of bitter experience ... *eg* :]


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