What is difference between "@repo/math": "*" and "@repo/math": "workspace:^"?

[cjayyy]

Summary

When adding internal package to another package in Yarn, Turbo documentation recommends to add it as wildcard version ("@repo/math": "*"). Yarn docs on the other hand recommend to use workspace: protocol ("@repo/math": "workspace:^") which seems safer and more readable.

Is there any difference in these two ways for Turborepo?
Why doesn't Turbo recommend the Yarn recommended way in its documentation?

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[anthonyshew]

They both do the same thing, but are for different Yarn versions. We show the * version in the docs because that's how Yarn 1 works, and way more Turborepo users use Yarn 1 compared to Yarn 2+.

For Yarn 1, you could also pin a version and update that as needed, but you'll notice it also doesn't have any workspace moniker in the docs: https://classic.yarnpkg.com/en/docs/workspaces