Re: [PR PATCH] [Closed]: nodejs: merge with nodejs-lts

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There's a closed pull request on the void-packages repository

nodejs: merge with nodejs-lts
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/40106

Description:
Nodejs versioning says that every even release (12, 14, 16, 18) is an LTS release. The `nodejs` package currently uses version 16 which is a supported LTS version, `nodejs-lts` uses version 12 which is EOL and very old. Many packages use nodejs-lts for building, but then depend on the nodejs virtual package which defaults to nodejs, many packages don't work with old nodejs-lts and people couldn't have both installed. If we need to, we can always split nodejs-lts again, but right now I don't see a reason to do so. Alpine merged their nodejs-lts package to nodejs and provides nodejs-current for the latest version for development.

TODO:
- [x] fix chronograf build with nodejs 16 (probably with an update)

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