[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#837929: npm: Should suggest nodejs-legacy

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[drop old archived bug from cc]

Quoting Matijs van Zuijlen (2016-09-16 10:39:05)
> On 16/09/16 10:24, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > 2016-09-16 10:22 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk 
> > <mailto:dr at jones.dk>>:
> > Quoting Matijs van Zuijlen (2016-09-16 09:57:52)
> > > I read through bug 614907, and I think the very best solution 
> > > would be for npm to ensure the correct node executable is 
> > > referenced in each package's executable. I don't know how feasible 
> > > that would be.
> >
> > Arguably the "very best" would be to drop npm from Debian ;-)
> >
> > More to the point, however: Do npm work at all without 
> > nodejs-legacy? If not, then npm itself should be moved to contrib!
> > 
> > Actually i believe most modules just work without nodejs-legacy, and 
> > npm itself has some uses without installing it either.
> 
> Yes, it seems it's mainly the modules that provide an executable 
> script that need nodejs-legacy (In my case, coffeelint).

Agreed.

I mentioned it only for completeness.

 - Jonas

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