Neal Gompa wrote on 05/21/18 12:46:
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:39 AM Aleksandar Kostadinov akostadi@redhat.com wrote:
Too bad, we're not talking about manual usage here but also projects likely have build scripts or something. Using aliases is IMO a no-go.
I see presently 2 other packages providing `yarn` executable:
> $ sudo dnf whatprovides /usr/bin/yarn > [sudo] password for avalon: > Last metadata expiration check: 1:37:54 ago on Mon May 21 10:56:24
> cmdtest-0.30-1.fc27.noarch : Black-box testing for Unix command linetools > Repo : fedora > Matched from: > Filename : /usr/bin/yarn > > hadoop-yarn-2.7.3-6.fc27.noarch : Apache Hadoop YARN > Repo : fedora > Matched from: > Filename : /usr/bin/yarn
IMO we should provide some alternatives mechanism so that `yarn` is whatever the user wants. We can't ask upstream packages to change to Fedora specific binary names. Or we can but we will be ignored.
If we don't handle `yarn` better, then users would likely just install `yarn` globally with `npm` and the distro package will not be used. Thus the exercise to maintain it would be mostly worthless.
Take it up with the maintainers of nodejs-yarn, cmdtest, and hadoop-yarn.
Got it.
I'd probably object to the usage of alternatives for this, since it makes no sense in this case (all three /usr/bin/yarn binaries do different
IMO it's a kind of alternative. Can we ensure that none upstream packages will have conflicting binary names? And don't think we must be an arbiter to upstream conflicting interests.
things). If all three can be made to agree, then /usr/bin/yarn should probably go to nodejs-yarn, due to its well-known usage.
I'd agree if you ask me but should we enforce something to users that can be configurable?
But I disagree on it being "worthless". People are increasingly using yarn data and preferring it over npm, so being able to support that in the distribution is very useful.
It is useful if it is accessible in a standard way. I think practice to diverge from upstream in incompatible ways needs to stop.
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