[satbyy]

> The short reason is that NPM is the most straightforward way to get a script installed as a global binary in a cross-platform manner

Really ? All Unix-like systems (incl OS X) can do this:

    /usr/bin/install myscript.sh /usr/local/bin

PS: Oh, just realized that there is npm uninstall as well, but not /usr/bin/uninstall (though it's just rm -f anyway)

[goldbrick]

`install` isn't package management, or anything close to that.