npm does not muck with NODE_PATH or any other node environment vars.

>> Plus: I have problems installing a module that (somehow) requires
>> NODE_PATH during install. So I want to know who to blame ;-)

If you share the specifics of the problem (including, at least: what
you did, what you expected, and what the result was), I'm sure we
could track down the culprit.

Specific NODE_PATH setting should not be required by any well-behaved
node module.  Something is probably Doing It Wrong, or just has some
kind of bug that the author didn't notice (perhaps because their
NODE_PATH is set some way that makes it work.)


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Oliver Leics <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Oliver Leics <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> is NODE_PATH deprecated?
>>>
>>> No. Why do you ask?
>>
>> nvm does not set it, but:
>>  -> ``npm install -g <pkg>`` just works
>>  -> ``npm link <pkg>`` inside a 'local' package just works
>>  -> ``<bin-script-of-pkg>`` just works
>>
>> I am not sure why NODE_PATH is still around, as the above 'just works'.
>>
>> Plus: I have problems installing a module that (somehow) requires
>> NODE_PATH during install. So I want to know who to blame ;-)
>
> NODE_PATH is for when you want to load libraries that live outside of
> npm (which should, hopefully, be quite rare.)
>
> I'm not sure if npm mucks with NODE_PATH. Probably not, but Isaac will know.
>
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