[ntpeters]

Honestly, I think you're both correct. It's definitely dangerous to allow packages to be unpublished, but it can potentially be just as dangerous for people to blindly include a library without looking into a bit first.

First lesson learned is of course in regard to how package managers such as NPM should handle scenarios like this. However, I would also hope this might make some people take a harder look at their dependencies to see if everything they are referencing is both truly needed and trustworthy.