On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 7:02 PM Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum.anal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Let's try this again, but CC'ing the package owners.
>
> On 2019-02-17 9:12 p.m., Elliott Sales de Andrade wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry for resurrecting a long-dead thread, but a few things happened 
> > recently:
> > 1. v8 was just retired last week or so,
> > 2. R-V8 just ported itself from v8-314 to v8 LTS 6/7.
> >
> > Currently, R-V8 supports both v8-314 and v8, but as the latter fixes 
> > several downstream package issues, it is the recommended build target. I 
> > expect that eventually they will stop supporting 314 as well. This leaves 
> > me in a bit of a pickle as it does not bundle v8 and neither I nor upstream 
> > have any plans to build it ourselves.
> >
> >> For all of these same reasons, the Node.js SIG opted to carry a bundled
> >> copy of v8 in that package as well. I think we should move to have v8
> >> considered to be a copylib for all reasonable purposes within Fedora.
> >
> > In Debian, the nodejs package provides a stable *shared* v8 library, and 
> > the recommended install is against libnode-dev. Unfortunately, in Fedora, 
> > while nodejs-devel provides v8.h, it does *not* provide any shared library.
> >
> > Is this something we can also do in Fedora, i.e., split out a nodejs-libs 
> > subpackage, or similar?
> >


I've been keeping the Node.js packages in Fedora alive, but on
life-support, for a couple years now. I don't have the cycles to look
into a significant rework of how they're designed. If you have ideas
for how to do what you're asking, I will happily review a pull request
to http://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/nodejs
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