When "Everything" Becomes Too Much: The npm Package Chaos of 2024 - Socket
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An NPM user named PatrickJS launched a troll campaign with a package called "everything," which depends on all public npm packages.
  • @zygo_histo_morpheus
    4•5 months ago

    One problem that’s particular to node is that you can’t unpublish packages if another package depends on them. As it says in the article, that means that no one can unpublish their packages, including the everyone package since someone apparently depends on that.