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I use node, npm, js all the live long day but the last thing I would want is NPM packages as part of my distribution. Maybe I'm being obtuse - but I use js beca
by scandox 9y ago
I use node, npm, js all the live long day but the last thing I would want is NPM packages as part of my distribution. Maybe I'm being obtuse - but I use js because it's rough and ready. Seems to me that being part of my actual OS is not what it's for.
- lathiat 9y agoThe problem here is that, users generally have some small subset of things they really care about. A particular app, or their own dev environment, etc. For these things.. they want that control. But the allure of distributions is for all of the other things that you don't care about, e.g. I just want to use this command line tool, you can just install the package and have it work. And also know you can uninstall it, in many cases receive security updates, etc. That is primarily where the two worlds collide.