Yarn: Remove NodeJs dependancy for: choco install yarn

[airtonix]

Please don't assume we don't have NodeJs installed.

If yarn won't install without NodeJs present, then throw error message. If a developer doesn't want to use nvmw or nodist, then they explicitly install nodejs along with yarn: sudo choco install nodejs yarn -Y

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Bug

What is the current behavior?
choco manifest assumes I don't have node installed or that I'm not using Nodist, a node version manager for windows.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

1. Have nodist installed
2. have choco installed
3. optionally install scoop, then scoop install sudo
4. sudo choco install yarn

What is the expected behavior?
Not have yarn install a version of node over the top of nodist...

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.
nodejs: whatever version i want...
os: windows 10.

[Daniel15]

The purpose of a package management system like Chocolatey is to manage your dependencies 😛 Yarn would be broken out-of-the-box for lots of users if it didn't specify a dependency on Node.js. You can install Yarn like choco install yarn --ignore-dependencies to ignore the Node.js dependency, or just use the Windows installer directly.

[Daniel15]

Closing this out as you can use --ignore-dependencies if you don't want to install Node via Chocolatey.

[marsonmao]

Confirming choco install yarn --ignore-dependencies is a must do.

I've tried choco install nodejs-lts, got node version 8.9.3, then choco install yarn, then choco automatically installs nodejs.install for me so i got version 9.3.0...

[Daniel15]

Is there a way to make Yarn handle either the LTS Node.js, or the regular
one? I don't want to totally remove the dependency as it'll break the Yarn
out-of-the-box experience for people that don't have Node.js installed.

Sent from my phone.

On Jan 2, 2018 7:00 PM, "Mao Hsi Shu" [e-mail] wrote:

Confirming this is a must do.

I've tried choco install nodejs-lts, got node version 8.9.3, then choco
install yarn, then choco automatically installs nodejs.install for me so
i got version 9.3.0...

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[jpierson]

The ironic thing is that this is the transitive dependency type of problem that tools like Yarn aim to solve in the first place. I also ran into this problem and made a post in my blog about the pitfall when trying out the SAFE stack which uses Yarn by default.

[pklapperich]

The nodejs package has a comment that it's a meta package, but that users who want LTS should still install nodejs-lts. Generally I would expect a package like nodejs-lts to declare that it provides nodejs and the package manager would consider dependencies resolved if it's installed.

@ferventcoder maintains the chocolately package for nodejs. Maybe he can give some guidance?