nodejs for Debian
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CommonJS global folders
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Documentation at:
file:///usr/share/doc/nodejs/api/modules.html#loading-from-the-global-folders

The documentation explains that CommonJS module eventually looks into `$PREFIX/lib/node`.

However in Debian, modules are installed in different paths, so the global folders
have been modified to instead end up searching into:

    * "/usr/lib/<$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH>/nodejs" for c++ addons
    * "/usr/share/nodejs" for pure javascript modules


ES6 Modules
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Documentation at:
file:///usr/share/doc/nodejs/api/esm.html#terminology

There is no global lookup with ESM.

One can easily symlink globally-installed modules into a local package using
"pkgjs-install-minimal" from the dh-nodejs debian package.