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by twhb 3536 days ago
You've got to take the ecosystem into account. There are a lot of very depended-upon modules that are 1 KB of code and bump their major version as a morning habit. Forcing people to reconcile all 8 ways they indirectly depend on the module would drive them nuts, but including 4 copies of the module doesn't hurt much.