Bug 688282

Summary:	>=net-libs/nodejs-8.16 should conditionally use bundled net-dns/c-ares
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Garry Filakhtov <filakhtov>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Garry Filakhtov 2019-06-18 09:06:04 UTC

All versions nodejs 8.16 and above depend on c-ares library and --shared-cares flag is given to the configure script. Would be great to have a flag, similar to the cURL's "adns" flag to not use shared library and use bundled code instead.

Comment 1 Marek Szuba archtester

2020-11-09 12:49:12 UTC

Closing due to inactivity, please reopen with updated information if this is still a problem.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2020-11-09 12:50:57 UTC

And we don’t want to use bundled libs. Why would we?