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From: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
To: Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org>
Cc: Josh Marshall <Josh.Marshall@jax.org>,
	help-guix@gnu.org, Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu>
Subject: Re: How should I be running `npm install …`?
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 00:06:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <366ura8k.321942@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1ufghpk.fsf@disroot.org> (Gary Johnson's message of "Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:20:55 -0400")

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Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org> wrote:
> Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> writes:
>> So?  /usr/ in traditional GNU distributions might be read-only as well, but it does not impede npm(1) or pip(1) or whatever install things system-wide (given that operator utilize his superuser powers, of course), as there are plenty other hierarchies available.
>>
>> Why is npm in Guix built with default ‘prefix’¹ (means, for --global actions) set to package directory under /gnu/store/ instead of, say, /usr/local?
>
> In Guix, all system-level packages and configuration files are created by the package manager under /gnu/store. The /usr directory is empty on a Guix system.

Yes, and thatʼs exactly why I am asking: why npm(1) is preconfigured to attempt to install its packages into the hierarchy, which should be monopolistically managed by guix(1), while there are no shortage of free prefixes?

Is that merely a bug?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-30 14:59 How should I be running `npm install …`? Josh Marshall
2020-04-30 15:06 ` Vivien Kraus
2020-04-30 15:13   ` [EXTERNAL]Re: " Josh Marshall
2020-05-02  7:40   ` Dmitry Alexandrov
2020-06-16 15:20     ` Gary Johnson
2020-06-16 21:06       ` Dmitry Alexandrov [this message]
2020-06-17  4:09       ` Dejan Ranisavljevic
2020-06-17 14:58         ` [EXTERNAL]Re: " Josh Marshall
2020-04-30 15:18 ` Jelle Licht

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