I’ve been setting up and testing a bit with NPM repositories and have now had my cleanup policies run. By my rules, the repo should currently be empty, but for some reason I see this in the repo: [Screenshot 2025-09-17 at 13-30-55 Browse - Nexus Repository Manager] When selecting these entries, I…

Those files would be metadata shared across versions, these aren’t currently covered by cleanup.

What is wrong with the NPM repository?

roland.asmann (Roland Asmann) September 19, 2025, 11:15am 3

OK, but what about my second question? Do they or do they not count toward the component limit?

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