install: Add initial npm@3 support for install --link

See FIXME in install for details on how this will need to be reworked.

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/install.js b/lib/install.js
index 8d18d8dc5..214612b7f 100644
--- a/lib/install.js
+++ b/lib/install.js
@@ -363,6 +363,25 @@ Installer.prototype.generateActionsToTake = function (cb) {
   ], cb)
 }
 
+
+/*
+FIXME: npm install --link [list of stuff]
+       Skip all of this and directly do the install -g / link steps
+FIXME: npm install --link [no args or .]
+       need to detect a list of top level modules that are going to be installed
+       check them for elegibility for linking, if so, take them and any of their
+       deps off the regular install list and install and link them
+ eg:
+   diff
+   if not linking, skip all the below:
+     for each action...
+       if add/update not top level or is not linkable, keep
+       else add to actions to link-todo-list, remove from pkg
+     if nothing in link-todo-list, skip the below:
+       reprune (will avoid installing any subdeps of the now global things)
+       diff again, add link-todo-list to result
+*/
+
 Installer.prototype.executeActions = function (cb) {
   validate('F', arguments)
   log.silly('install', 'executeActions')
@@ -387,6 +406,8 @@ Installer.prototype.executeActions = function (cb) {
     [doSerialActions, 'move', staging, todo, cg.newGroup('move')],
     [doSerialActions, 'finalize', staging, todo, cg.newGroup('finalize')],
     [doSerialActions, 'build', staging, todo, trackLifecycle.newGroup('build')],
+    [doSerialActions, 'global-install', staging, todo, trackLifecycle.newGroup('global-install')],
+    [doSerialActions, 'global-link', staging, todo, trackLifecycle.newGroup('global-link')],
     [doParallelActions, 'update-linked', staging, todo, trackLifecycle.newGroup('update-linked')],
     [doSerialActions, 'install', staging, todo, trackLifecycle.newGroup('install')],
     [doSerialActions, 'postinstall', staging, todo, trackLifecycle.newGroup('postinstall')])