Comment # 2 on bug 985350 from Adam Majer

OK, so an idea is to

  1. make `npm` install things under /usr/local prefix, not /usr
  2. change nodejs to look again under /usr/lib{,64}/node
  3. packaged nodejs modules to install under /usr/lib{,64}/node
os 
Then /usr/lib{,64}/node_modules becomes legacy in OpenSUSE

Rationale,

  1. 'npm' shouldn't dump things under /usr - it should be treated as read-only
filesystem
  2. shouldn't really install executables under /var because that's local to
system
  3. /usr/local could theoretically be network shared, and it also has
/usr/local/bin and all that stuff, so consistent if there are links to
executables linked from /usr/local/bin to /usr/local/lib/node_modules.
  4. current stuff installed on user machines under /usr/lib{,64}/node_modules
keeps working

Or, keep /usr/lib/node_modules as search path and install packaged nodejs
modules there. And let users sort out if they don't want currently installed
modules in search path?

In either case, currently letting 'npm' install under /usr is not good.