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Date:      Thu, 18 May 2017 11:36:20 -0600
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, sunpoet@FreeBSD.org, swills@FreeBSD.org, luca.pizzamiglio@gmail.com, adamw@FreeBSD.org, bradleythughes@fastmail.fm
Subject:   Re: situation with www/node6 and www/node
Message-ID:  <364E8F36-8F5B-41E6-825E-24F8CA19AD98@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <86fug2cc5o.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca>
References:  <86fug2cc5o.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca>

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> On 18 May, 2017, at 11:22, Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> I am hitting an issue where the conflicting www/node6 and www/node
> packages are attempting to be installed together.  For example, the
> upcoming net-im/mastodon pulls in www/yarn (which depends on www/node6
> by default), and indirectly depends on devel/rubygem-execjs (which
> depends on www/node by default).
>=20
> It would be ideal if all ports depended on the same node version by
> default.  Looking at the current state of the ports tree, it would =
make
> sense for everything to depend on www/node since the only two ports
> depending on www/node6 by default are www/npm3 and www/yarn.  But, =
Luca
> makes the point that version 7 of node is not what upstream =
recommends.
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> Could we come to a consensus here?

Why is yarn depending on node6? npm depends on node. Everything else =
that uses node depends on node. Yarn depending on node6 by default is =
ridiculous and should be changed.

# Adam


--=20
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org




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