npm and bundled modules

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On 12.09.2016 12:20, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
> On 2016-09-10 23:46, Paweł A. Gajda wrote:
>> npm itself bundle its dependencies,so, what I like to do is just to 
>> bundle
>> them into package as well. It just works and would make upgrades 
>> much, much
>> easier. Any objections?
>
> +1, no objections.
>
> Node dependencies and packaging is totally crazy and mantaining it 
> right with RPM (making RPM package for each node package, which may 
> contain a single .js file with a single function) would require 100x 
> bigger team of developers than we have. So, instead of fighting that, 
> lets just package together as much as it is convenient.

the exception may be binary packages. would be reasonable to build 
binary packages as standalone packages.

but so far none of npm packages were binary, last time i tried to update npm

-- 
glen