npm unlink does not unlink from global path

[defunctzombie]

Steps to reproduce:

1. checkout a node project
2. cd
3. npm link
4. npm unlink

The expected result is to have the project no longer linked globally but alas, unlink says that the project is not installed under its own node_modules folder (and yes, indeed it is not) and doesn't unlink it globally.

[luk-]

unlink is just an alias for uninstall, ala the unix unlink.

[defunctzombie]

So how would you undo the npm link then? (Outside of digging up the symlink
stuff manually)
On Oct 17, 2013 12:27 PM, "Luke Arduini" notifications@github.com wrote:

unlink is just an alias for uninstall, ala the unix unlink.

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[luk-]

You can npm r [module] -g but afaik there isn't a more elegant way than that.

[defunctzombie]

good enough for me

[mgol]

This seems very unintuitive. unlink should undo an action of link, that's what its name suggests.

[neverfox]

Exactly, @mzgol.

[othiym23]

Reopening this, as I agree that this is a confusing inconsistency in the CLI, but be forewarned that it's very low priority and won't be happening for a while. Also you can stop +1ing it now, thanks.