[Pkg-javascript-devel] hello, plus node packaging questions.

[Andrew Baxter]

On 31/01/12 14:44, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> On 31/01/2012 15:06, Andrew Baxter wrote:
>> I was thinking that someone might want to install several nodejs based packages on their system.
>> Say one has all its dependencies in debian, and they have all been installed that way, but the
>> other hasn't been packaged for debian. Some of the second project's dependencies might be installed
>> already on their system, but when they used npm to install it, these wouldn't be picked up and would
>> have to be installed twice.
> I assume we are talking about npm>= 1.0.
>
> I agree that :
>
>    sudo aptitude install node-pg
>    npm link pg
>
> Should give the same result as :
>
>    sudo npm -g install pg
>    npm link pg
>
> But this always downloads a fresh copy to ./node_modules :
>    npm install pg
>
>
> If you have a package.json listing 'pg' as one of its deps,
> i don't think installing its package by :
>    npm install .
> will link existing globally installed npm-packages.
>
> If you really want to do that, as a pure npm user you'll have
> to do :
>    sudo npm -g install pg
>    npm link pg
>    npm install .
>
> Maybe a future version of npm will allow to skip the extra 'link before install'
> step, but until then it does not seem necessary to do that task :
> "fix 'npm link xxx' so that modules on node path (not installed by npm) are linked as well"

OK, thanks. This makes things a bit clearer.

Cheers,

andy