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by dmitryminkovsky 1696 days ago
You can’t really fetch from git because for the majority of packages there is a non-standard build step that packages do not consistently specify in package.json, if at all. Packages on NPM are just tarballs uploaded by the author. Furthermore, what about transitive dependencies?
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> what about transitive dependencies?

What about them?

As for unspecified build steps: this seems like a solvable problem. I would just submit a patch.