Dnia 2013-09-22, o godz. 17:17:53 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan...@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
> I'd like maintainers of all packages depending on dev-lang/v8 to make > their packages use bundled v8 copy instead (I can file bugs for that, > let's discuss here whether it should be done). > > For now V8 upstream gives no guarantees about API/ABI stability and > actually breaks it very often > (<http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/v8.html>). Having a shared > library so closely tied to packages (which results in frustrating > blockers, since v8 is updated often and chromium is synchronized with > that) is not really much different from everyone bundling the library. > I'd like that to improve, but for now it's time for a pragmatic solution > to this IMHO. If this trend continues, I think we should work on some technical way of tracking bundled libraries, e.g. for security issues. Like ebuilds listing the corresponding Gentoo packages, like: QA_BUNDLES="dev-foo/bar-1.2.3" -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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