This is probably a stupid/tired question, but why does npm allow mutable
packages?

I'm working on an app where security is an issue, and among the (many)
things that I'm frothingly paranoid about is the possibility of malicious
(or more likely just untested) code somehow getting into our app, even
though we're using shrink-wrapped versions. It means we'll have to be much
more careful with the way we proxy the npm registry.

As a secondary point, I would have thought immutable packages would allow
for much better caching behaviour, so reduce load on the registry itself
and speed up npm for everybody.



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Richard Marr

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