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by hobofan 1869 days ago
I would assume to prevent situations like the left-pad incident.
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PMs are made for managing and hosting packages, VCS are made for versioning source-code. If you're checking in packages into VC, you're going against the designs of both your PM and VCS. It's a bad idea. Don't.

If you for some reason require redundancy of a package repo, then host your own.