Re:Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition
by squiggleblaz on Monday January 06, 2020 @04:44AM
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> A trivial solution would be to create a crowd-sourced dependency vetting platform.
And then aren't you just recreating the old fashioned Linux distribution? No-one writes webapps to Linux distros any more; they're always based on language-specific, author-submitted, untrusted package managers because waiting for enough trust to build up to include the latest version of unnecessary-wrapper-for-document.getElementById-0.83.2 is considered stifling.
Maybe nixpkgs comes a little close, somewhat trusted and requiring third-party involvement, multiple versions simultaneously, but including new packages quickly enough. (And indeed, nixpkgs acts as distribution that can run on top of your distro or standalone as NixOS.)
And then aren't you just recreating the old fashioned Linux distribution? No-one writes webapps to Linux distros any more; they're always based on language-specific, author-submitted, untrusted package managers because waiting for enough trust to build up to include the latest version of unnecessary-wrapper-for-document.getElementById-0.83.2 is considered stifling.
Maybe nixpkgs comes a little close, somewhat trusted and requiring third-party involvement, multiple versions simultaneously, but including new packages quickly enough. (And indeed, nixpkgs acts as distribution that can run on top of your distro or standalone as NixOS.)