Bin conflict with gulp & gulp-cli

Npm install fails when having gulp-cli as dependency and gulp as devDependency. This is probably because both of them try to link their own gulp bin.

∴ slush git:(4.0) npm install

> v8flags@1.0.8 install /Users/heikki/Desktop/heikki/slush/node_modules/gulp/node_modules/v8flags
> node fetch.js


> v8flags@1.0.8 install /Users/heikki/Desktop/heikki/slush/node_modules/gulp-cli/node_modules/v8flags
> node fetch.js

npm ERR! Darwin 14.0.0
npm ERR! argv "node" "/Users/heikki/.nvm-fish/v0.10.35/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! node v0.10.35
npm ERR! npm  v2.1.17
npm ERR! path ../gulp-cli/bin/gulp.js
npm ERR! code EEXIST
npm ERR! errno 47

npm ERR! EEXIST, symlink '../gulp-cli/bin/gulp.js'
File exists: ../gulp-cli/bin/gulp.js
Move it away, and try again. 

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /Users/heikki/Desktop/heikki/slush/npm-debug.log

[phated]

@silkentrance no, this is an npm issue as stated above

[amcsi]

For those of you having this issue with yarn (since they didn’t fix it there I think), you can fix this by manually adding this to your package.json:

  "bin": {
    "react-native": "node_modules/react-native-cli/index.js"
  },

And then removing node_modules and your lockfile and installing again.

With this your local package.json’s bin entry will take precedence over the ones defined in the external packages, and you should be able to control whose bin file to use this way.

EDIT: actually even locally defining it doesn’t give it precedence -.-