On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 2:39 PM Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I've just submitted a review request for separating out NPM into its
own package (again). This is being done for a couple reasons:
1) To get rid of the ridiculous release field and take advantage of
the %autorelease macro
2) I'm planning to rework how the nodejs packages work to make
different versions parallel-installable (with the alternatives
infrastructure owning /usr/bin/node). I want to keep NPM in a common
location (/usr/lib/node_modules) so that it will work with whatever
Node is in use.
I completely missed the most important reason:
3) EPEL 9 has announced that it will not support modules, so I want
there to be some way (aside from the official RHEL releases) to get
Node.js packages there.