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Feature Request: Unofficial builds #3041

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@ljharb We recently talked about how it makes no sense to have a POSIX compliant installer, since on embedded systems you most likely need to compile node yourself, so the benefit of not installing bash is neglectable.

The reason why nvm doesn't work on Alpine Linux, is because the official builds are compiled against glibc, but there are unofficial builds for musl that should work.

It would be beneficial to have a way to define a different source for node versions, so that I can use nvm on Alpine in the first place.

node releases on the Alpine package manager are tied to repository branches, meaning accessing an older node version means to run an ancient OS as well. I'd love if you could look into it.

Related: nodejs/build#1140

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