On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Forrest Norvell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:06 AM, Sebastian Sester > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> since npm gets installed to /usr/local, I can't execute it without sudo. >> Also, changing the ownership of /usr/local/… to my user (as often suggested) >> won't help, since other users need to access it, too. > > Because npm only needs elevated privileges when you’re installing packages > globally (with -g / --global), and because you should only do that when you
Also for `npm link`. Which should probably default to putting symlinks in ~/.npm/links/, and support a `npm link -g`, for installing global cli scripts as links to your dev env. Current scheme is an unfortunate intermixing of global installs and links. Sam -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CACmrRmTK57V4hhe9y3Hu4SgEVg4ycQSvScwR_%3D6AJROwk7gUaw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
