On Monday, November 11, 2013 9:46:17 AM UTC-5, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Changing the binary name isn't required at all. > > What should be done is for applications in npm (e.g. things like Haraka), > npm should transparently fix up the path in shebang lines to whatever node > is being used to perform the installation. > > This is what Perl's CPAN does. And it resolves the issue of having > multiple node versions installed. > > And obviously Debian will have to fix any shebang lines in dpkgs it offers > of node-based apps. > > That's a great idea! npm already adds node_modules/.bin to PATH when executing scripts. It makes sense to also get "node" to resolve to the correct binary at this time. If it has some directory such as ~/.npm/path/ where it puts a softlink node -> nodejs if applicable, this would fix all the scripts in package.json. I've created an issue in npm for this: https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/4116
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