Hi,

Sorry for resurrecting a long-dead thread, but a few things happened recently:
1. v8 was just retired last week or so,
2. R-V8 just ported itself from v8-314 to v8 LTS 6/7.

Currently, R-V8 supports both v8-314 and v8, but as the latter fixes several 
downstream package issues, it is the recommended build target. I expect that 
eventually they will stop supporting 314 as well. This leaves me in a bit of a 
pickle as it does not bundle v8 and neither I nor upstream have any plans to 
build it ourselves.

> For all of these same reasons, the Node.js SIG opted to carry a bundled
> copy of v8 in that package as well. I think we should move to have v8
> considered to be a copylib for all reasonable purposes within Fedora.

In Debian, the nodejs package provides a stable *shared* v8 library, and the 
recommended install is against libnode-dev. Unfortunately, in Fedora, while 
nodejs-devel provides v8.h, it does *not* provide any shared library.

Is this something we can also do in Fedora, i.e., split out a nodejs-libs 
subpackage, or similar?
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