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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens (kevinpatel.xyz)

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Today I had to build and install an application using Crates. It recursively pulled 700 other packages and gave me a gut feeling comparable to testicular torsion. I don't care how paranoid the community is, it only takes one careless maintainer to node-ipc or left-pad an entire dependency tree.