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why I publish to npm + don't publish to my distro package manager

re: https://drewdevault.com/2018/01/10/Learn-your-package-manager.html

  • needs human effort to {write,modify} the package per distro, per update
    • do the write/update
    • someone working on the distro to review the work & merge it
  • need to wait until next release for people to use the package/update
    • need to maintain a private pkg server (per distro; or just fuck the others)
  • does my pkg then depend on distro pkgs or npm ones?
    • if distro: dll hell ensues
    • if npm: why did we even choose to write a distro pkg in the first place?

vs

I type npm publish and the new version of my module is instantly available to all node users on all OSes and distros

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