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It is definitely a bad idea when working on a server, but for a cli tool or some editor that might install it anyways it could be arguably worth a try.

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It's JavaScript. If you make any thing that's merely silly in command line tools, it will end up being adopted where it's a terribly stupid idea.

Plugins are plugins and dependencies are dependencies. Don't mix them up.

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