> The short reason is that NPM is the most straightforward way to get a script installed as a global binary in a cross-platform manner Really ? All Unix-like s

> The short reason is that NPM is the most straightforward way to get a script installed as a global binary in a cross-platform manner Really ? All Unix-like systems (incl OS X) can do this: /usr/bin/install myscript.sh /usr/local/bin PS: Oh, just realized that there is npm uninstall as well, but not /usr/bin/uninstall (though it's just rm -f anyway)