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by quickthrower2 2500 days ago
That is an interesting idea, playing on people's confusion as to where to install from. And someone is going to put the super terse `npm i -g mytool` on their README.md page (because it's all about the easy installs isn't it!) and forget to say "change your registry to github" and boom!
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Not even "someone". Exactly that command is available to copy to clipboard on the page of this new feature. Yeah, a small link to the instructions is printed underneath it, but most users - especially the ones that are new to package managers and the most vulnerable - will ignore that.