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#3440 Change: NodeJS metapackage
Closed: Accepted by zbyszek. Opened by amoloney.

Closed: Accepted
Reopen Issue

The NodeJS team no longer wish to design one of the maintained NodeJS
streams as the "default" or "preferred" one explicitly,
but wishes for the users to retain the ability to install "any" NodeJS
stream when the specific major version is not important to them.
To that end, the non-versioned nodejs package will become
an empty "metapackage" pulling one of the versioned nodejsXY packages
as it's dependency.

Owners, do not implement this work until the FESCo vote has explicitly ended.
The Fedora Program Manager will create a tracking bug in Bugzilla for this Change, which is your indication to proceed. See the FESCo ticket policy and the Changes policy for more information.

REMINDER: This ticket is for FESCo members to vote on the proposal. Further discussion should happen in the Discourse discussion linked above. Additional discussion may happen on the Fedora Devel mailing list.

+1 to this, contingent upon them figuring out the "alternatives" problem with atomic-mode systems.

+1 - note: s|design|designate (the proposal is already updated)

+1

APPR0VED (+3, 0, 0)

Announced: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MWAYYY45CYEZ4FZCOF4GGWFAYMWBII4E/

Metadata Update from @zbyszek:
- Issue close_status updated to: Accepted
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

Change Deferred to Fedora 45

This change has been deferred from Fedora 44 to Fedora 45.

Automated updates completed:
- ✅ Wiki page updated to target F45 and moved to Category:ChangeAcceptedF45
- ✅ Bugzilla tracking bug (BZ#2383283) moved from F44 tracker to F45 tracker
- ✅ GitLab release notes issue updated to F45 milestone
- ✅ ChangeSet pages updated for both F44 and F45
- ✅ Discussion thread updated: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f43-change-proposal-nodejs-metapackage-self-contained/157322/7

Resources:
- Wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NodeJSMetapackages
- Tracking bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383283

Hello, @alking.
I have noticed in wiki page that you deferred this further to F46 (ChangeAcceptedF46), was that a mistake?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NodeJSMetapackages

Hi @Andrei Radchenko aradchen@redhat.com

I apologize. I missed that I had already deferred this and when I re-ran
the scripts, I deferred it again. I put it back in F45 now.

Thanks for catching this!

On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 6:21=E2=80=AFAM Andrei Radchenko pagure@pagure.io=
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aradchen added a new comment to an issue you are following:
Hello, @alking. I have noticed in wiki page that you deferred this further to F46 (ChangeAcceptedF46), was that a mistake? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NodeJSMetapackages

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This Change has been deferred from F45 to F46.

Note: The milestone on this issue reflects when FESCo originally reviewed this Change and is preserved as historical record.

This Change has been deferred from F45 to F46.

Note: The milestone on this issue reflects when FESCo originally reviewed this Change and is preserved as historical record.

What does this mean?

It looks like this was applied to the wrong Change / ticket.

The previous comment about deferral to F46 was made in error. This Change should remain targeted for Fedora Linux 45.
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