Re: npm global prefix needs to be a writeable directory

[Ryan Prior <ryanprior@hey.com>]

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On November 26, 2020, Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> wrote:
> On other distros it defaults to a location that is not writable by
> normal users either;

Indeed I can confirm that Ubuntu node also has this problem.

> Node doesn't do this on other distros either, correct?
> [snip]
> Another way folks solved this problem has been using "nvm" which in
> practice boiled down to [setting a
> custom global prefix, just managed by nvm now].

I think Guix should work more like nvm than like other distros in this
case. If this is something we could handle automatically per-profile,
then that gives us the opportunity to do the right thing and save the
user some hassle.

If we decide not to go that route, I agree that we're doing no worse
than other distros that package Node. But I'm rarely satisfied with the
status quo :)

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