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If you had to install an npm package by URL, instead of by registry name, would you mind? eg. $ npm install https://website.com/package.tgz $ yarn add https://website.com/package.tgz
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That would make me rely on the availability of a dozen different servers (probably one for each package), right? I think I would prefer to depend only on one.
Yeah it would. I don't really know how it would work out in practice. This may only make sense for really large tools with a single package who want to be in control of distribution. I wish vendoring dependencies was more common since it would solve the availability problem.