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Re:Let's Package JQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian No... by seanp2k2 on Saturday May 02, 2015 @04:19AM (#9476326)
Honest question, not trolling: why would I want to install a front-end JS lib using a system package manager? What is the use-case for doing this?
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Re:Let's Package JQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian No... by icebraining on Saturday May 02, 2015 @05:24AM (#9476441)
Self-hosted web apps (the linked post mentions MediaGoblin). The idea is that a user can run 'apt-get/yum install mediagoblin' on his home computer and have a personal media server.
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Re:Let's Package JQuery: A JavaScript Packaging Dystopian No... by davexunit on Saturday May 02, 2015 @08:41AM (#9476840)
Deduplication, reproducibility, using only a single package manager instead of a handful, ec.
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