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> NPM support to use an existing name (saying they will bump major).

Sorry, could you please explain what this means? I keep seeing comments about bumping version numbers (e.g. the right9ctrl did some shenanigans with versioning).

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Ah sometimes you get people asking to use a name such as my "log" pkg in npm, but bumping from 2.0 to 3.0 so that dependencies aren't messed up. Assuming the person has no bad intentions I think it's a perfectly reasonable request.

I ignored this particular request via email a few times, because I just really don't want to spend time dealing with Node stuff. You then get a request from NPM support asking the same thing, so I agreed to it, that's all it takes to get access to a package really.

I think from now on I'm just going to tell people to come up with a different name, this wouldn't be a problem if the names were scoped by default.

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