Comment by collinmanderson

> Perhaps we need a common community effort to create a “distro” of curated and safe dependencies one can install safely, by analyzing the most popular packages and checking what’s common and small enough to be worth being included/forked.

Debian is a common community effort to create a “distro” of curated and safe dependencies one can install safely.

If you want stable, tested versions of software, only getting new versions every few years:

https://packages.debian.org/stable/javascript/

If you want the newer versions of software, less tested, getting new versions continuously:

https://packages.debian.org/unstable/javascript/