[Pkg-javascript-devel] Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package

[Bastian Blank]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 02:12:52PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Pirate Praveen writes ("Javascript team policy and rejection of node-three binary package"):
> > 1. Node.js has standard locations for discovering installed packages
> > which is different from browser targeted javascript libraries.
> > Node.js expects pure js modules to be installed at /usr/lib/nodejs but
> > javascript libraries are installed at /usr/share/javascript
> This is not an argument in favour of separate packages AFAICT ?

No, it is not.

> > 2. Dependency on nodejs is required only during build or when other
> > Node.js modules depend on it. a browser targeted library does not need
> > to depend on nodejs package.
> This could be solved by dropping the nodejs dependency from all the
> nodejs module packages and requiring top-level applications to depend
> on nodejs.

And what problem would arise from this dependency?  What does it break,
so it _must_ not exist?

Bastian

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