From: Gary Johnson <lambdatronic@disroot.org>
To: Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com>
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: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:20:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1ufghpk.fsf@disroot.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <o8r67pk7.321942@gmail.com>
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.
~Gary
Dmitry Alexandrov <321942@gmail.com> writes:
> Vivien Kraus <vivien@planete-kraus.eu> wrote:
>> Le jeudi 30 avril 2020 à 14:59 +0000, Josh Marshall a écrit :
>>> I’m trying to run `npm install -g browserify` with the output below.
>
>>> npm ERR! path /gnu/store/39zkw3a8lxkxs7rmx4238959zc368075-node-10.19.0/lib/node_modules
>>
>> I am a mere guix user, so you may want to have another answer.
>
> I am not even a Guix (the SD) user, but this made me curious.
>
>> You cannot install anything globally with NPM in guix because NPM is installed in a read-only location (/gnu/store/)
>
> 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?
>
> ---
> ¹
> $ npm config get prefix
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-16 15:21 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 [this message]
2020-06-16 21:06 ` Dmitry Alexandrov
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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