[bug#51838] [PATCH v2 18/26] guix: node-build-system: Add optional #:libuv? argument.

[Philip McGrath]

On 11/20/21 02:46, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 19.11.2021, 23:33 -0500 schrieb Philip McGrath:
> > * guix/build-system/node.scm (lower): Add an optional #:libuv?
> > argument to tell the build system to add the version of libuv
> > used as an input to the #:node package as an additional implicit
> > input, so that packages needing libuv always get the correct version.
> Would it change something if we always had libuv as implicit input?  I
> don't think it'd do much for closure size, but it might impact implicit
> package search as proposed by my solution to the #:absent-dependencies
> thing.

From a Guix perspective, I don't think it would make much difference, 
since libuv is always needed by node itself. Maybe it would require more 
grafting than would be needed otherwise?

But I think the recommendation for authors of node add-ons is to avoid 
libuv unless it's really needed, because it has fewer stability 
guarantees that other Node.js APIs.