"I don't want to sound like a old grumpy man". Hmm you failed :). On a serious note you might have noticed that there are 2 major camps of node users those who

"I don't want to sound like a old grumpy man". Hmm you failed :). On a serious note you might have noticed that there are 2 major camps of node users those who came from web frontend devs & ones adapting node at large scale enterprises/projects (paypal, walmart, netflix, joyent) so as you might guess there are solutions to address situations like this (e.g. run your own registry etc).