[jakear]

Npm is the exact same. You can have your local npm talk with a registry other than the npmjs one. It’s as simple as a `registry=` line in .npmrc.

So this problem it’s pretending to solve isn’t actually a problem. And the solution introduces more problems (see comment on sibiling)

[animalCrax0rz]

It's not about choosing a different registry for all your modules, which will almost always be a commercial for-profit entity due to the cost of running and maintaining a centralized repository of that scale. AFAIK, or as far as I can envision, it's about a future where we can have the repository be a decentralized graph. It's definitely more challenging but we won't be dependent on one or few companies to host all modules. What do you think of that idea? My point is Ryan was right to avoid recreating dependence on commercial for-profit entities.