Hello everyone, Debian has a nodejs-legacy package that symlinks /usr/bin/node to /usr/bin/nodejs...
Jérémy. On 11/11/2013 06:28, Mark Hahn wrote: >> Let's face it, it was a little bit arrogant to use as the binary name. > > No, it was a simple non-arrogant mistake. Imagemagick using convert and > several other common verbs is arrogant. > >> It's not too late to make this change. > > It's not too late for debian to change and fix their mistake. > > Having the previous small number of ham operators using "node" change their > scripts would have been orders of magnitude easier than what is happening now > on debian with nodejs. Don't bring debian's problems to the rest of us. > > > > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Andrew Kelley <superjo...@gmail.com > <mailto:superjo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Some reading material: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript/Policy > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614907#108 > > Debian (and hence other downstream distros such as Ubuntu) has decided to > use /usr/bin/nodejs as the binary path for the official node.js package. > Unfortunately, this makes the package unusable for applications and modules > which depend on the "node" binary. For many of us who are familiar with node, > it is easy to compile from source, install from a different source (such as > Chris Lea's PPA), or even softlink nodejs to node to get everything working. > Some people are on OSX or other distros where this problem seems nonexistent. > But don't underestimate how powerful the convenience of installing from a > distribution's package manager is, and how influential Debian and its > downstreams are. This is a huge point of confusion for users who want to > install our open source node.js apps and utilities. From their perspective, > everything is just broken and they don't care enough to figure out why. > > "node" is an extremely generic word. Let's face it, it was a little bit > arrogant to use as the binary name. It conflicts with another binary name in > the debian ecosystem, and does not conflict in some other ecosystems. But > such a generic word is bound to conflict in the future and be a source of > confusion. "nodejs" is still concise, yet is a much less selfish citizen in > the global namespace. > > Node has not yet reached 1.0. It's not too late to make this change. > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > <mailto:nodejs@googlegroups.com> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:nodejs%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:nodejs%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
