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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category?
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:44:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <de82a9ba-537a-a7a9-53bc-a134538536ae@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLUPR17MB02737BD97DF18E8F5C8F6801D9AB0@BLUPR17MB0273.namprd17.prod.outlook.com>

On 03/20/2018 04:14 PM, Herb Miller Jr. wrote:
> That is scary. I hadn't noticed there are node_modules directories under
> many node modules and that npm list outputs different versions of the
> same dependency. To help me better understand the situation, when you
> see this happen does "bar-1.0" normally depend on "baz-1.0" because...
> 
> A) There is some huge technical hurdle in upgrading to "baz-2.0"?
> B) I was too lazy or didn't care to upgrade to "baz-2.0"?
> C) My package.json is outdated?
> 
> If A, can you point me to a good example I can take a look at?

It's usually B or C, but I hit several cases where there was a real
incompatibility. When I opened Github issues, I got a lot of WONTFIX
responses telling me that I have to use npm.

No particular examples come to mind, though -- this was about 2.5 years ago.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-20 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20 11:50 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category? Herb Miller Jr.
2018-03-20 18:34 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-20 19:43   ` Herb Miller Jr.
2018-03-20 18:48 ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-03-20 20:14   ` Herb Miller Jr.
2018-03-20 20:44     ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2018-03-21  1:27   ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-21  1:36     ` M. J. Everitt
2018-03-20 23:50 ` Benda Xu
2018-03-21  1:44   ` Herb Miller Jr.
2018-03-21  7:33     ` Kent Fredric
2018-03-21 12:22       ` Herb Miller Jr.
2018-03-21 10:07     ` X dej
2018-03-21 12:15       ` [gentoo-dev] Pypi generator (Was: [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category?) Benda Xu

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