Hello all, here is a revised version of zamfofex's patch that inherits
from node-14. I tried to trim as much fat out as possible in the
inherited node-(16-)lts, but some of the package arguments were
divergent in minor ways. I also bumped the version to 16.5.0 in the
meantime.

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Sincerely,
Ryan Sundberg

On 2/25/22 9:22 AM, Maxime Devos wrote:
> Pierre Langlois schreef op vr 25-02-2022 om 16:31 [+0000]:
>> If I may shime in, I agree that it's best to have fewer versions of
>> node
>> for Guix's own node packages, however for end-users I think it's a
>> good
>> idea to provide multiple versions they can install.
> 
> I'm not opposed to including multiple LTS versions, as long as they
> are supported upstream, there actual users of the old LTS versions
> and there is some reason to use older versions (perhaps there are
> a few incompatibilities?).
> 
> However, I would prefer the latest version to be standard version
> (with variable name node-lts) so node packages in Guix use the latest
> LTS by default.  Something like
> 
> (define-public node-lts
>   (package
>     (inherit node)
>     (version "16.13.2")
>     [...]))
> 
> ;; Older LTS versions, still maintained upstream and used (see <...>).
> ;; There are some incompatibilities between [...], so allow users
> ;; to choose which node to use.
> (define-public node-14
>   (package
>     (inherit node-lts)
>     (version "14.[...]")
>     [...]))
> 
> Greetings,
> Maxime.