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		almost on Oct 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, includ... They were probably right to do it. But it would have been useful to keep the reference to Node.JS in there as not everyone knows what "n" is.

ars on Oct 7, 2012 [–]

I read it as:

"Running and stable with no bin, lib, share, include directories in /usr/local".

Which didn't seem all that exciting to me, so I clicked just to see what all the excitement was with not having a /usr/local.

PS. "n" is a terrible name for a program - it's impossible to google.

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