Bug 675582

Summary:	dev-util/electron bundles a copy of net-libs/nodejs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Elvis Pranskevichus <elvis>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	proxy-maint
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-01-16 14:13:57 UTC

As seen in https://bugs.gentoo.org/675578

Comment 1 Elvis Pranskevichus 2019-01-16 15:38:51 UTC

This is by design.  Electron contains a heavily patched version of nodejs: https://github.com/electron/node/  There is no way to use the system version.