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Bug 673964 - www-client/firefox-64.0 has a net-libs/nodejs dependency?
Summary: www-client/firefox-64.0 has a net-libs/nodejs dependency?
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2018-12-29 10:31 UTC by Marcin Kowalski
Modified: 2019-01-04 19:38 UTC (History)
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Description Marcin Kowalski 2018-12-29 10:31:05 UTC 
I don't really understand why does firefox require nodejs in RDEPEND. Is there any explanation for that? Some kind of headless support?

Ebuild in question is here : https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/firefox/firefox-64.0.ebuild
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-12-29 10:35:27 UTC 
(In reply to Marcin Kowalski from comment #0)
> I don't really understand why does firefox require nodejs in RDEPEND.

It has no RDEPEND on net-libs/nodejs.

> Is there any explanation for that? Some kind of headless support?

Not enough JavaScript engines.

> Ebuild in question is here :
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-client/firefox/firefox-64.
> 0.ebuild

Right, that says it has a build time dependency on net-libs/nodejs, not a run time dependency.
Comment 2 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2019-01-04 19:38:58 UTC 
Like Jeroen explained to you, it is only a build dependency.

For more details please read https://lists.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-platform/2018-August/022511.html

Closing as INVALID because this is not a bug.