[malone]

I always feel guilty about how much I end up downloading from the npm registry. I keep my nodejs projects is separate dirs, so I end up downloading the same dependencies over and over again each time I start a new project.

I wish the --global install switch was cleverer and allowed you to have multiple versions of the same package installed at the same time. Then I could just symlink everything together which would save them bandwidth (and save me diskspace).

[33a]

npm actually caches packages locally, so don't feel too bad. Still if you have wildcard dependencies it will hit the main npm server to check if you have the most recent version in your cache.