On 09/15/2016 09:17 AM, Robert Van Voorhees wrote:
Hey guys, anyone notice that updating to Node 6.5 is pulling in a
whole lot more
stuff now than it used to? I'm trying to make the move from 6.3 to 6.5, and
it's forcing updates to gnome-shell, uninstalling Firefox, and a whole range of
weird behavior. Does it have something to do with upgrading v8, or one of the
other dependencies?
If that was 6.3.0 to 6.5.0, then it probably has to do with the fact that we
added a dependency on libicu to support internationalization. That's a pretty
heavily-used library, and I suspect it's causing you to need to update other
stuff that relies on it.
We added the icu support in 6.3.1. Libicu is troublesome, in that it bumps
SOname on every upstream release, so everything has to be rebuilt against it.
Since Node.js is built against the latest release (57), it probably had to
update everything that you had on your system that was depending on version 56.