Trying to install nodejs + npm from repository under openSUSE 13.1
give 

zypper in nodejs-0.12.5-69.1.x86_64 npm Loading repository data... Reading
installed packages... Resolving package dependencies...

Problem: nothing provides npm(request) < 2.58 needed by npm-2.11.2-13.1.noarch
Solution 1: do not install npm-2.11.2-13.1.noarch Solution 2: break
npm-2.11.2-13.1.noarch by ignoring some of its dependencies

Choose from above solutions by number or cancel 1/2/c: (on openSUSE 13.1)

If I fork nodejs, and simply enable the npm build we don't have any issue. last
npm will always be available in last nodejs why complicated things ? so the
source are already there. Why not to try to package a separate npm from the
nodejs.spec ?