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I do support and these issues come up all the time with yarn:

- native packages are not well-supported by yarn yet, notably node-sass since it's so widely-used

- no private module support

I also had a weird issue where for certain packages yarn would pick up a version which was older than what npm would. Not sure if this had anything to do with the fact that we have an internal npm mirror (that being said, yarn claims it picks up the .npmrc information, so even if it did, that would be a yarn bug).

In addition, yarn seems to increasingly be prioritizing its own default configs over what may be saved in my ~/.npmrc. Had several proxy issues after upgrading to a newer version of yarn that I didn't have earlier.

The reason I switched to yarn wholesale was because my existing npm based infrastructure worked seamlessly (at least to the extent that I was using npm features). But I've noticed that newer versions of yarn seem to have regressed in terms of npmrc support, which is a huge problem.

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