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among other things, it's difficult (next to impossible) to package nodejs software in a way that is conformant to the the Free Software Distribution Guidelines ( https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html ) because it's full of circular dependencies, unbuildable packages and so on (you can see here https://dustycloud.org/blog/javascript-packaging-dystopia/ )