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Comment by stephenr | Hacker News Reader

What is "the git of package managers"? One thing that a very loud group of people claim is the second coming of jesus without any knowledge of the alternatives?

I think we have that already with NPM.

Edit: to clarify, I'm not suggesting npm is the 2nd coming. I'm suggesting people act like it is, ( much as they do with git )

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Then i could say we have that already with Rubygems.

I always cry a little when a nice looking small tool is distributed trough NPM. Why? I really dont want and will build those dependencies just for a stupid mini tool.

To me 'the git of *' is something:

    - based on good theoretical foundations
    - sufficiently performant
    - not perfect, but good enough for most use cases
    - accepted as a de-facto standard, but that is a consequence of the above

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