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| author | isaacs <i@izs.me> | 2010-10-18 02:16:51 +0400 |
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| committer | isaacs <i@izs.me> | 2010-10-18 02:16:51 +0400 |
| commit | 61fea1cc15fc1b6ac1f9c755ad8bebca469bd57a (patch) | |
| tree | 5a9a399f8dcdac693d6b826a94fa9a9b931ef383 /README.md | |
| parent | 924b5bbb7b7dbed0ed4b29bec25711dc1b4748c3 (diff) | |
Make the .npmrc sample more clear, and add some words about sudoing
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ Create and edit a file at `~/.npmrc`. This is an ini-formatted file, which you can use to set npm configs. Do something like this to it: cat >>~/.npmrc <<NPMRC - root = $HOME/.node_libraries - binroot = $HOME/bin - manroot = $HOME/share/man + root = ~/.node_libraries + binroot = ~/bin + manroot = ~/share/man NPMRC ### Option 4: HOLY COW NOT RECOMMENDED!! @@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ If this causes horrible things to happen, you can't say I didn't warn you over and over again until everyone got sick of hearing about it and told me to shut up already. +It is on the roadmap to make npm do a bunch of chown/setuid stuff when sudoed, +so eventually it'll actually be *safer* to run as root than as a user account, +but that's a refactor that is slowly progressing. + +If you have feelings about sudo use and what it should imply, then please go add +some comments and thoughts on [this issue](http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/issue/294). + ## More Fancy Installing First, get the code. Maybe use git for this. That'd be cool. Very fancy. |