This is becoming increasingly impractical for certain ecosystems as packages depend on packages, which depend on packages, etc. It's less of a problem with the

This is becoming increasingly impractical for certain ecosystems as packages depend on packages, which depend on packages, etc. It's less of a problem with the bundler ecosystem, where larger packages with relatively few dependencies is more standard, but in the JS world installing a package means that you're likely installing tens or hundreds of sub-dependencies.