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They supposedly took over the npm packages[0,1], not the github.com repos. npm is a system where you push archives as package versions, it doesn't do its own pu
by judge2020 5y ago
They supposedly took over the npm packages[0,1], not the github.com repos. npm is a system where you push archives as package versions, it doesn't do its own pull from a github repo or otherwise.
To add, unused/squatted npm package names regularly get reassigned[2].
0: https://www.npmjs.com/package/colors https://www.npmjs.com/package/colors
1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker https://www.npmjs.com/package/faker
2: https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/disputes#definitions https://docs.npmjs.com/policies/disputes#definitions