situation with www/node6 and www/node

[Joseph Mingrone]

Hello,

I am hitting an issue where the conflicting www/node6 and www/node
packages are attempting to be installed together.  For example, the
upcoming net-im/mastodon pulls in www/yarn (which depends on www/node6
by default), and indirectly depends on devel/rubygem-execjs (which
depends on www/node by default).

It would be ideal if all ports depended on the same node version by
default.  Looking at the current state of the ports tree, it would make
sense for everything to depend on www/node since the only two ports
depending on www/node6 by default are www/npm3 and www/yarn.  But, Luca
makes the point that version 7 of node is not what upstream recommends.

Could we come to a consensus here?

Thanks,

Joseph
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