On: Do not use NPM 5.7

[mbeattie]

This is governance issue.

Build all your software into packages appropriate for the OS you use and then put them in a company repo. Install from there.

If you're just dumping whatever "stuff" you want on a machine in whatever location with no control, you're gonna have a bad time.

[Silhouette → mbeattie]

Unless you are going to systematically and reliably audit literally everything that any installer in any of those packages does as root, this is not a solution to the real problem, it's just trying to reduce the risk a bit.