Re: Request to fast track gitlab dependencies

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2018, Ross Gammon wrote:

>> The node package manager (npm) is a very important tool for people
>> developing nodejs applications, and many people were inconvenienced when
>
> Don’t *these* kind of people install npm outside of the package
> manager normally anyway?

The primary benefit of getting it through the distro package manager
is getting automatic updates (especially security updates).

Assuming this is less invasive than e.g. an updated version of a
language runtime, it seems like a good thing to have in backports.

Thanks,
Jonathan