Except of course that the library in question is 12 lines of code. And that you might not even know that three levels down your dependency tree someone used that module.
> I think what actually is a knee jerk reaction being irresponsible with your dependencies and blame others for your lack of foresight.
Er.. actually I don't use NPM.
> He doesn't owe you anything. You and other should be thankful for him to have allowed you to use his code. Fuck that entitlement bs.
Yes but I belong to the adult world, so if I had a package that load of people relied on, wrongly or rightly, I wouldn't just drop it knowing it would be harmful to other projects, just for the sake of causing chaos. It's all about the mens rea.
Seems like it. Why break everyone's builds? You could just keep the modules there and then declare you will only keep them updated elsewhere?