Package persistence is not really a dependency manager feature though, it's a package repository feature. npm didn't fail; npmjs.com did. I'm just waiting for

Package persistence is not really a dependency manager feature though, it's a package repository feature. npm didn't fail; npmjs.com did. I'm just waiting for this to happen to bower next. AFAIK they're just a registry pointing to github. All it's going to take is someone doing a force push without thinking and we're in this same situation again.