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You miss a package manager layered on top of the one already in your OS, one that's seemingly run by people with no clue what they're doing, is rife with securi
by na85 9y ago
You miss a package manager layered on top of the one already in your OS, one that's seemingly run by people with no clue what they're doing, is rife with security issues and can break your entire system as we saw today?
I have no clue why a sane person would run npm.
- pbreit 9y agoAnd yet millions do?
- bussierem 9y agoMillions of people believe in chakras, horoscopes, and homeopathy - argument from popularity is a logical fallacy for good reason. Consensus does not equal quality.
- fatbird 9y agoAnd those same millions have been halted simultaneously in development around the world by the removal of key packages due to namespacing issues. Or, today, we find that running the newest version of npm under sudo can rewrite file system permissions across the entire hierarchy. What was that you were implying about how the choice of millions is probably pretty good?
- na85 9y agoMillions of people write their passwords down on little slips of paper next to their monitor. Are you implying that because something is popular, it's therefore "good"?