On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:39 AM Aleksandar Kostadinov <akost...@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 2018. > > cmdtest-0.30-1.fc27.noarch : Black-box testing for Unix command line > tools > > 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. 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 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. 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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ ruby-sig mailing list -- ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to ruby-sig-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CR3B7FCSWV52BXTMXT7LW7ZYUDHRF2PI/
