On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <denni...@conversis.de> wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently looking into using npm v3 with nodejs v4. The problem I've > run into is that npm is apparently part of the main nodejs package which > effectively joins them at the hip for no apparent good reason. > > Upstream ships npm with nodejs because they need npm to bootstrap the > environment and cannot rely on a higher level dependency mechanism > because there is none. As a result they encourage to simply install a > new npm by replacing the old one. > > In an rpm based environment however this does not work because the files > are owned by the rpm and any reinstall or update will overwrite these > files again with the ones from the rpm. On the other hand rpm has its > own dependency resolution so the bootstrapping issue doesn't exists. > > As a result I would like to see npm separated from nodejs so that > alternative versions can be installed in the same way that some packages > require a mail transfer agent but not a specific one. > For nodejs this would mean that by default the npm version that is now > bundled gets pulled in by default but that the user has the option to > specify an explicit package (like npm v3) that can satisfy the npm > dependency.
Probably best to discuss this on the Fedora nodsje mailing list [1], I know there's discussion on npm packaging already happening there and packaging of npm deps and other fun details. [1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/nodejs.lists.fedoraproject.org/ -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
