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Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source by armchairhacker on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:43PM (#30728541)
iirc npm has support for pinning dependencies, you just have to remove the “^” at the start of the dependency version. Is there a global option in npm or yarn or pnpm? Why don’t they make this the default?
Re:On the Weaponisation of Open Source by zkldi on Saturday March 19, 2022 @03:44PM (#30736952)
https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/509

it more or less just makes it difficult for updates to propogate, which is arguably a good thing.