Comment by moritzwarhier

1 day ago

Sure. But I'm not sure if I wanted to burden their package registry maintainers with maintaining all kinds of JS/TS packages?

And if you go for custom registries, what's the big difference to npm registry?

I don't understand it :)

One good thing about npm ecosystem IMO is that it's frowned upon to depend on system globals.

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moritzwarhier

pianopatrick 3 hours ago

There are already quite a few JS / TS packages in the Debian repos. Some examples:

https://packages.debian.org/trixie/node-pg https://packages.debian.org/trixie/webpack https://packages.debian.org/trixie/eslint

So someone is already taking on that burden.

m4rtink 15 hours ago

Maybe that's another indication of something wrong - the NPM ecosystem granularity being so high there is not enough humans alive to safely maintain all the packages ? And some rethinking might be needed even there.