[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#940511: Bug#940511: Our mutual interest in /usr/bin/yarn

[Pirate Praveen]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:39:31 +0100 "Yadd" <yadd at debian.org> wrote:
> I don't think that "Provides: yarn" is a good thing here since "/usr/bin/yarn" isn't provided by yarnpkg. "Provides: node-yarn" seems enough here and without any consequences.

As a compromise, can we have a debconf prompt to notify users about this 
conflict and to run

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/yarnpkg /usr/bin/yarn

if they want to use yarn command.

Automating this via a postinst may be a good idea too, but not sure if 
that is allowed by policy. May be we can ask for an exception since this 
is a special case. This way people who want to use yarn command has a 
way to do it easily.

Prompting users is a bad idea in general if we can have good defaults, 
but we don't have much options left here.
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