PKGJS(1p)

🎀 PKGJS 💖

okay so bestie, gather round, because we're talking about pkgjs — and no, it's not a crypto thing, it's the manual page for the 1p command pkgjs, which lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section. she's a wrapper, she's a middle-manager, she's the friend who knows a guy. let's go 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

pkgjs — a wrapper to the pkgjs-* commands, used to replace yarn while building Debian packages. she's literally the understudy that ate 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the tea, fr fr: pkgjs is a wrapper around the whole pkgjs-* command family. when you run something, she takes your word and goes and finds the right sibling to do the actual work.

for example, if you type:

pkgjs ln yargs

she launches:

pkgjs-ln yargs

iconic, right? but wait, there's more 👑 — for some commands she'll instead launch yarnpkg(1) or npm(1), but only if they're available. she's not gonna manifest a binary out of thin air, bestie, that's not the vibe.

here's the full breakdown of who goes where:

• Ignored commands (these literally do nothing, they're the "seen at 3:47am" of commands): cache, config, dedupe
• Commands passed to yarnpkg/npm: explain, info, init
• Direct mappings — these just launch the matching pkgjs-* command, one-to-one, no drama:
  • depends
  • easy-to-update
  • install-minimal
  • lerna
  • ln
  • ls
  • main
  • pjson
  • run
  • utils
• More complex mappings — these ones have layers, they're giving main character energy:
  • bin: launches which(1) 🕵️
  • exec: launches nodejs(1) 🏃
  • install:
    • if the PKGJS_INSTALL_OPTS environment variable is set, she launches pkgjs-install(1) with PKGJS_INSTALL_OPTS and the arguments you gave her
    • otherwise, she launches pkgjs-install-minimal(1)

⚠️ and every other command? yeah no. all other commands will fail. she doesn't know them, she doesn't claim them, she will not be doing that. 💀

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Yadd <yadd@debian.org> — the goat, the legend, the one who wrote the wrapper 🫶

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

Copyright (C) 2021 by Yadd <yadd@debian.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

On Debian systems, the complete text of version 2 of the GNU General Public License can be found in:

/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2

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and that's the whole page, bestie, no notes 💅 this was PKGJS(1p), documented by User Contributed Perl Documentation, shipped with perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-08-17. slay, mwah, go build your packages 🎀✨🦋