Happy to consider it, but I'm unsure what the benefits would be? Probably something like Homebrew would be more suitable I believe.

With all due respect we are on Linux. No homebrew for us. Since you are already on the node platform..this makes sense for all of us.

Makes sense, I didn't specifically mean "just Homebrew", but I'm definitely open to uploading it to the NPM registry.

Yes, there's homebrew for Linux -- linuxbrew (http://linuxbrew.sh/). I've found it extremely valuable because where I am, "normal" users aren't allowed root access but can compile things in their home directories. Linuxbrew, being a version of homebrew, makes this much easier than doing it manually.

Erm. No. I'd pay not to use npm at all.

Why? You can use it not at all for free!

Because the whole npm system is broken, and I wish yarn would break apart and start anew.

npm would be substantially more suitable. Don't forget about Windows developers, please!