Re: Request to fast track gitlab dependencies
On 12/21/18 3:48 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, Ross Gammon wrote:
>
>> The node package manager (npm) is a very important tool for people
>> developing nodejs applications, and many people were inconvenienced when
> Don’t *these* kind of people install npm outside of the package
> manager normally anyway?
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
Yes, upstream's recommended method is to download and install nodejs
which includes a version of npm, and then keep npm update using the npm
cli from thereon:
https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm
But those people like me that prefer to use Debian packages were
probably quite annoyed at having to uninstall nodejs, and all of the
reverse dependencies, to follow that approach (at least I assume this is
what they had to do when they upgraded from Jessie to Stretch).
Alternatively, they moved their node development to Ubuntu, which still
had the nodejs and npm synced from Debian unstable. This is what I did :-)
Ross
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