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On 3/23/2016 5:03 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> One developer just broke most of the Node.js ecosystem by removing an eleven
> line package from npm (the node.js package manager, somewhat similar to
> Python's pip only even more critical):

Does PyPI actually delete packages, as opposed to making them harder to 
find?


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy