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. Regards, Dennis -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
