[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1004419: Bug#1004419: nodejs:any prevents one to install nodejs package from official upstream "nodesource" repo

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Jérémy Lal (2022-01-27 10:24:21)
> Sometimes it's useful to be able to swap between nodejs debian package 
> and somewhat "official" https://deb.nodesource.com releases.
> 
> Now that packages depend on nodejs:any, it's no longer possible to do 
> that, at least not without uninstalling many node-* modules.

That sounds like an interoperability bug in that unofficial nodejs 
package, not in this package.


> Also i don't understand why debian packages would need to depend on 
> nodejs:any instead of plain nodejs.

A fully multiarch-compatible system can contain packages compiled for 
multiple architectures installed side by side.

E.g. an amd64 CPU can execute both amd64 code and i386 code - you can 
install a core amd64 system and choose to install an i386 nodejs.  The 
nodejs runtime would only lookup arch-independent modules and modules 
for its own arch - modules compiled for i386 would need to depend on 
either native nodejs or foreign nodejs/i386 on a multiarch-system with 
nodejs/i386 installed.

You can even mix binaries alien to the CPU - e.g. extend an ARM64 core 
system with MIPS binaries.  Possibly they would then never really be 
used, or possibly (I haven't tried yet) you can install qemu and run 
emulated for those binaries.


 - Jonas

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