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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2177776 +++

Description of problem:
Initially reported https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176555 against osbuild, the easiest method of resolving this issue is if we can remove the /usr/etc/npmrc softlink in npm and just use /etc/npmrc.

If we can do that, then osbuild will not have to workaround this single package. This is the only package we have found so far that has any content in /usr/etc/

# rpm -qlv npm | grep etc/npmrc
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root                       18 Feb 25  2021 /etc/npmrc
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root                       10 Feb 25  2021 /usr/etc/npmrc -> /etc/npmrc

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 npm

--- Additional comment from  on 2023-03-15 12:45:58 UTC ---

Since image builder can not handle modules only the default (16) is applicable at this time BUT I do have a bug on image builder getting the ability to handle modules.  So if we could take it out of both streams, and future streams of nodejs, this issue wouldn't return.

CentOS stream MR with relevant change: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/nodejs/-/merge_requests/57

CentOS Stream MR is now merged.