Perhaps you mean "has anybody considered having formal, hierarchical namespaces", an orthogonal concern to having or not having a single global repository (alth

Perhaps you mean "has anybody considered having formal, hierarchical namespaces", an orthogonal concern to having or not having a single global repository (although the two can be coupled together by the community if they so choose). To which the answer is yes [1][2][3][4]. [1] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/798 https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/798 [2] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/5239 https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/5239 [3] http://blog.npmjs.org/post/116936804365/solving-npms-hard-problem-naming-packages http://blog.npmjs.org/post/116936804365/solving-npms-hard-pr... [4] https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/scoped-packages https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/scoped-packages