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Re:The modern packager’s security nightmare by vnlp on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:11PM (#26218758)
Sounds like another idea of djb took off (the slashpackage hierarchy).
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Re:The modern packager’s security nightmare by MetaDark on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:23PM (#26218857)
I'm not sure what the slashpackage hierarchy is, but Nix & NixOS started in 2003.
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Re:The modern packager’s security nightmare by lifthrasiir on Sunday February 21, 2021 @07:27PM (#26218892)
That's https://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html which is dated at least 2001. It's not quite the same to the Nix approach though, which also tracks all direct and transitive dependencies.
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