@tehjh I don't know the specifics of how npm does this, but rubygems would delete the package and reserve the name
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yeah, I should have googled it before posting. http://blog.npmjs.org/post/141905368000/changes-to-npms-unpublish-policy … says npm behaves that way, too
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