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Re:Changes to Npm's unpublish policy by dantillberg on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:20PM (#11383052)
From the article: "we’ve seen a lot of discussion about why unpublish exists at all. Similar discussions happen within npm, Inc. There are important and legitmate reasons for the feature, so we have no intention of removing it..."

Could anyone comment on what those reasons are / might be?

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Re:Changes to Npm's unpublish policy by phairoh on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:22PM (#11383070)
There are examples within the very article on which you are commenting. I'd start there.
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Re:Changes to Npm's unpublish policy by alanh on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @01:31PM (#11383145)
from article:

- bugs

- contained secrets (accidental publish)

- embarrassment

- open-source fatigue

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