Similar, yes. You can also choose repositories in Java, as well, which is closer to your Linux package repo. So there's just another tier in the hierarchy, the

Similar, yes. You can also choose repositories in Java, as well, which is closer to your Linux package repo. So there's just another tier in the hierarchy, there, basically. You can run your own private artifact repositories for NPM and Ruby, and select which concrete artifacts they contain; but that's not the publicly hosted repositories. One option could be to centralize into a cluster of public repositories, which is closer to what the Java and Linux ecosystems have, and that may be a sufficient compromise in many cases. I think the layer of abstraction between repositories and concrete artifacts is still useful.