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
