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When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 (socket.dev)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] zygo_histo_morpheus 4 points 7 months ago

One problem that's particular to node is that you can't unpublish packages if another package depends on them. As it says in the article, that means that no one can unpublish their packages, including the everyone package since someone apparently depends on that.