From: Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject: Re: devel/yarn - still needed?
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:10:29 +0100

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- outdated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