nodePackages.prebuild-install: drop

Author: tomodachi94

doc/release-notes/rl-2605.section.md

@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
 
 - Ethercalc and its associated module have been removed, as the package is unmaintained and cannot be installed from source with npm now.
 
+- `nodePackages.prebuild-install` was removed because it appeared to be unmaintained upstream.
+  See [upstream's recommendations for alternatives](https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild-install#note).
+
 - `python3packages.pillow-avif-plugin` has been removed as the functionality is included in `python3packages.pillow` directly since version 11.3.
 
 ## Other Notable Changes {#sec-nixpkgs-release-26.05-notable-changes}

pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix

@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ mapAliases {
   inherit (pkgs) pnpm; # added 2024-06-26
   poor-mans-t-sql-formatter-cli = throw "'poor-mans-t-sql-formatter-cli' has been removed because it was unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2025-11-14
   postcss-cli = throw "postcss-cli has been removed because it was broken"; # added 2025-03-24
+  prebuild-install = throw "prebuild-install was removed because it appeared to be unmaintained upstream. See upstream's recommendations for alternatives here: https://github.com/prebuild/prebuild-install#note"; # Added 2025-12-14
   inherit (pkgs) prettier; # added 2025-05-31
   prettier_d_slim = pkgs.prettier-d-slim; # added 2023-09-14
   prettier-plugin-toml = throw "prettier-plugin-toml was removed because it provides no executable"; # added 2025-03-23

pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages.json

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@
 , "lcov-result-merger"
 , "node2nix"
 , "postcss"
-, "prebuild-install"
 , "sass"
 , "semver"
 , "vega-cli"