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From:
Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject:
Re: devel/yarn - still needed?
To:
Fabien ROMANO <fabienromano@gmail.com>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:58:49 +0100

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Did you check if corepack yarn is a viable option for you? electron may be an
exception, but the projects I've come across so far don't need a globally
installed yarn command anymore.

On 2024-03-26 23:36, Fabien ROMANO wrote:
>Please no, I'm working on electron and I need it.
>
>VSCode works for me on amd64 (also stretchly, byar, signal-desktop).
>I don't know a lot about Yarn port itself but we can improve it for sure.
>
>I think that's too early to bring my wip on ports@ but it's a start.
>If some brave souls want to help, I can share, just contact me.
>
>On 26/03/2024 20:10, Volker Schlecht wrote:
>> Picking up on that discussion from September:
>>
>> devel/yarn is
>>
>> - unsupported upstream
>> - unmaintained
>> - unused
>> - outdated
>>
>> ok to remove?
>>
>> On 2023-09-19 21:43, Volker Schlecht wrote:
>>> On Tue Sep 19, 2023 at 9:05 PM CEST, Aaron Bieber wrote:
>>>> On 9/19/23 13:00, Volker Schlecht wrote:
>>>> > Cc: abieber@
>>>> >
>>>> > I just came across our port of devel/yarn, which appears to be both very
>>>> > old and by now, very underutilized.
>>>> >
>>>> > The last discussions about yarn that I saw on the list were about WIP
>>>> > efforts to port VSCode, to which an ancient devel/yarn doesn't seem to
>>>> > be the key either.
>>>> >
>>>> > Any reason to still keep it around?
>>>>
>>>> Probably not. The MainReason™ for the port was to give people a working
>>>> yarn. Out of the box
>>>> it doesn't know the path to `node`.
>>>
>>> With no regard to my: Is that still a problem since we fixed that with a
>>> metaphoric hammer?
>>>
>>> https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/lang/node/patches/patch-src_env_cc
>>