T.C. and I worked on getting jQuery packaged for Fedora [1]. It's quite painful trying to package npm modules in a way that's suitable for distributions like R

T.C. and I worked on getting jQuery packaged for Fedora [1]. It's quite painful trying to package npm modules in a way that's suitable for distributions like Red Hat/Fedora/Debian. The dependency tree just goes on and on and on, and there are versioning issues all over the shop. And if you want to run test suites in the package build process then you'd better package mocha, tap, tape, nodeunit, should, vows, expresso, jasmine, supertest etc. And all of their dependencies too. And make sure every test in the test suites for every module pass. By the end of it all, you're a broken, hollow shell of the person you were before, but at least now it's possible to run "yum install js-jquery" and get version 2.1.3 :-) [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/jQuery https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/jQuery