On 03/20/2018 07:50 PM, Benda Xu wrote: > 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 > > Hopefully by the time it gets to that many I won't be the only one creating/maintaining them. If I am, then yes, some kind of automation would be the only sane way to keep up. I figure I'll face that challenge when I get there. As I'm writing them I am seeing a general skeleton forming that most of them fit into.
---- Herb Miller Jr.
