596538 – dev-ruby/poltergeist: avoid phantomjs dependency

Bug 596538 - dev-ruby/poltergeist: avoid phantomjs dependency

Summary: dev-ruby/poltergeist: avoid phantomjs dependency

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Ruby Team

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Blocks:	589994
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Reported:	2016-10-08 11:33 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified:	2017-06-05 07:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-10-08 11:33:21 UTC

Needed to allow us to kill that package

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-11-10 12:42:00 UTC

Any news on this? phantomjm ebuilds are still full of bugs and without fixing (and still without any maintainer)

Thanks

Comment 2 Hans de Graaff gentoo-dev

2017-06-05 07:12:57 UTC

Poltergeist contains bindings to drive phantomjs from ruby and nothing else so this dependency cannot be avoided.

# Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> (05 Jun 2017)
# Bundles obsolete and vulnerable webkit version.
# Upstream has stopped development and recommends using
# headless mode in >=www-client/chromium-59.
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #589994.
www-client/phantomjs
dev-ruby/poltergeist