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> Every installation of Node comes bundled with npm. If it doesn't, that is a package maintenance problem. Not really. Ubuntu's node comes without npm, and to
by kunley 3y ago
> Every installation of Node comes bundled with npm. If it doesn't, that is a package maintenance problem.
Not really.
Ubuntu's node comes without npm, and to install the latter it wants to get about a hundred of dependencies. Mind you, this is still one of the most popular distros.
Would you call their approach "a problem"?
- lopkeny12ko 3y agoThis is not true. Installing Node on Ubuntu with a package manager using the official instructions [0] installs both Node and npm. If you are using an unofficial repository, and that maintainer did not include npm in his Node package, then yes I would consider that a problem. > to install the latter it wants to get about a hundred of dependencies Yeah, as software engineers, let's discourage code reuse, shall we? Node and npm are not trivial pieces of software. I expect it to have lots of dependencies. This is hardly surprising. [0] https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager#debian-and-ub...