Questionable prompt behaviour when both bun and node are installed about starship HOT 5 OPEN

Documentation addition in: #5834

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I think right now things are working as expected?

I can imagine the use case of having one prompt_format override another one could be something that's desirable in more situations where there are competing package managers (though it's a hairy discussion to get into).

Probably easiest to say: X is more specific than Y so if X is there then don't show Y. That would pre-empt any debates between pnpm/yarn/bun etc.

Does such a functionality exist already in starship or would it need to be built?

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Probably easiest to say: X is more specific than Y so if X is there then don't show Y. That would pre-empt any debates between pnpm/yarn/bun etc.

My problem with this is that you're lumping Bun in with pnpm and yarn. Bun is a JavaScript runtime first and a package manager second. Like Deno, it's meant to replace Node.js, you do not need Node.js installed to use Bun.

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Can we leave behind the confusing overgrowth of javascript packaging tools?

You want to be able to say: in the bun module that if it's on, it should override the nodejs and not display that. Right?

That information would have to go somewhere in: https://github.com/starship/starship/blob/master/src/configs/bun.rs#L10
And the be resolved later as an exclusion.

I assume Starship already has certain detections that are able to take precedence over others, or the capability to match file negatively. If bun.lockb or bunfig.toml are present, only display the bun runtime info and not Node.js info.

That does not seem to be the case. I could work on this and then check whether it makes sense to lift this into a more general facility.

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You can add a negative match to your nodejs module config:

[nodejs]
detect_files = ['package.json', '.node-version', '!bun.lockb']

I think it may be a bit much to add that into the node module as a default? But I think it's worth a try. Of course that would be annoying if people don't have the bun module enabled in which case they would not see anything and think the nodejs module is buggy.

Otherwise this could be added as documentation for the bun module.

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