Hello Herb, "Herb Miller Jr." <gentooh...@gmail.com> writes:
> When I did my homework on creating nodejs ebuilds (not nodejs itself > but packages written in node), it seems the topic has come up a few > times in the past but the time commitment and general disorganization > of upstream has scared off any serious attempts at packaging. > > Seeing as there has been interest in nodejs packages, and in the end > we could be talking 400-600+ packages, would it be possible to create > dev-libs/nodejs category? I would be happy to write and proxy-maintain > ebuilds for a large number of them to get things in motion. I've > already opened pull request #7427 [1] for chalk and its > dependencies. I'm aiming to build up to all the dependencies needed > for Visual Studio Code OSS. > > [1]:https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/7427 Your effort will be much appreciated. I support your plan. Should the category be dev-js intead? To me, node.js is but an implementation of javascript runtime. BTW, for the 400-500 packages, are you going to create them with a generator script? Cheers, Benda
