Bug 1627748

I also think, that there should be a symlink from /usr/bin/yarn to /usr/bin/nodejs-yarn.

I wanted to avoid having conflicts, as /usr/bin/yarn is provided by cmdtest and hadoop-yarn (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1507312) and I didn't want to add another one.

Requesting needinfo from package maintainers for some more opinions on this issue.

I'm not familiar with nodejs-yarn at all, nor cmdtest, but it may be possible for hadoop-yarn to just use /usr/bin/hadoop-yarn and avoid /usr/bin/yarn completely. I'll reopen that rhbz#1507312 for that.

I think /usr/bin/yarn should be provided. Some script use it by default. Users can choose which packages to install.

$ git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
$ cd vscode
$ yarnpkg
/bin/sh: yarn: command not found
child_process.js:651
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Command failed: yarn -v
/bin/sh: yarn: command not found


May be, we can use `alternatives` to provides a command link.

$ alternatives --install /usr/bin/yarn yarn /usr/lib/node_modules/yarn/bin/yarn.js 90

alternatives should not be sued to flip between totally different things with name collision.

This needs a cooperation between the package maintainers.

I can tell that the "yarn" command missing is a big deal when dealing with nodejs. However I have never heard of cmdtest or hadoop-yarn at all. I realize that my view here is limited. Maybe we should reach out to devel@?

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$ repoquery --repo=rawhide -l nodejs-yarn | grep /usr/bin
/usr/bin/nodejs-yarn
/usr/bin/yarnpkg

Also:

$ repoquery --repo=rawhide -f /usr/bin/yarn


So the "slot" is free now, at least on rawhide.

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