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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by Oculus on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:01PM (#6533952)
I think we're getting pretty close to figure it out in the world of node with npm.
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Re:Recharging the Python standard library by riffraff on Friday October 11, 2013 @12:52PM (#6534301)
please correct me if I'm wrong because I just had a cursory look at NPM some time ago, but I believe

* it doesn't have virtual packages (in the sense, "'email-sender' is a package that provides a sendmail() function")

* it hardcodes a max of two dependency sets: runtime and dev. This maybe be better than a freeform Gemfile or a 6-scopes pom.xml but it seems quite arbitrary

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